Getting /srs about tone tags

<p>In digital modes of communication, speakers may struggle to convey their tone and emotions to their readers and interlocutors. This complication leads to questions surrounding the state of the conventions for conveying tone in digital utterances (e.g., tweets). This thesis explores one such way that speakers overcome this struggle, tone tags. Tone tags are linguistic items consisting of a forward slash and an alphabetic character or characters that serve to represent some word or phrase, generally used to indicate the intended spirit of the utterance. This thesis serves as an analysis of these items, including necessary context, an explanation of how tone tags relate to pre-existing features of English, and a linguistic analysis of tone tags collected from various social media platforms, specifically in regard to their syntactic distribution and semantic scope. The thesis ends with the conclusion that tone tags, while related to other lexical items (e.g.,adverbs), seem to project their own syntactic category with a range of unique properties.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Morrissey, Sierra

Contributors dc:contributor

• T. Daniel Seely, PhD
• Eric Acton, PhD

• Internet Language
• Tone Tags
• Linguistics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1270

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2620