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May 10 2021
Report prepared for: LING 248: Social Networking and Cyber language
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Introduction
Language is an evolving entity. It does not stay the same over time in all its forms. CMC or computer mediated language is no different. In fact, computer mediated language has evolved at a greater pace than other form of communication. Blogs have seen many changes as well. As a communication form that is highly personal on one end and impersonal on another, blogs have developed around various topics based on people’s personal interest.
In this report we shall analyse the evolution of food blogs as a CMC over a period of 4-5 years. In order to make this analysis, we shall assess 4 food blogs, 2 from 2014, and 2 from 2018-19. The food blogs shall be analysed for their structure, content and language and how it has changed over the years. Following the analysis we shall observe the reasons for these changes and conclude with a summary of the observations.
Figure 1- CMC Text. (Reichi, 2018, December 21).
Figure 2- CMC Text. (Reichi, 2014, December 28)
Figure 3- CMC Text. (Preeti, 2018, January 22 )
Figure 4- CMC Text. (Preeti, 2014, July 4)
1. Analysis of Two food blogs
Blogs are a unique form of CMC in that they have several features of both ve
al and written language making them unclassifiable in either form. In addition they highly reflect personal opinions and are thus quite distinct from one blog to another. They exhibit differences in personalities, way of communication, mood as well as gender, avidly (Nowson, 2006).
Our focus here, are food blogs. Food blogs have become very common in the recent years, especially due to a surge in ideas of home cooking, healthy eating and diet consciousness. More and more bloggers have taken to the internet to make food blogging their main job. So food bloggers range from enthusiasts, to extra money makers, to those who blog full time in order to earn a living (Gill, Nowson & Oberlander, 2009).
Food bloggers, since they are na
owed to food enthusiasts display certain unique linguistic features (Diemer, Brunner & Schmidt, 2014). These are discussed below
2. Linguistic features of food blogs
2.1- Food Lingo-
Food blogs use language and terms unique to food items. So, food bloggers are usually discussing foods that they create or foods that they try. The dominant theme of food blogs is naturally, food and thus related words are in use.
2.2- Dynamicity-
There is a fair level of dynamicity in food blogs, not in terms of food word, but in terms of types of foods discussed. There are various types of foods today, Chinese, Indian, Arabian, French, and Italian etc. Food blogs contain non-English words in relation to their respective cuisines.
2.3- Paralinguistic Cues-
Food blogs have always used more than one extra...