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An Investigation of a Factor that Affects the Usage of Unsounded Code Strings at the End of Japanese, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French Tweets

Authors:
Yasuhiko Watanabe
Kunihiro Nakajima
Haruka Morimoto
Ryo Nishimura
Yoshihiro Okada

Keywords: unsounded code string; Twitter; general public; particular persons; non verbal communication.

Abstract:
In this study, we compare Japanese, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French tweets submitted to Twitter and discuss how we use unsounded code strings at the end of online messages. We first define unsounded codes and unsounded code strings. Next, we compare and discuss the usage of unsounded code strings at the end of tweets, especially, togeneral public and particular persons. Finally, we show the receiver of a tweet, whether general public or a particular person, is a factor that affects the usage of unsounded code strings at the end of Japanese tweets, but not English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French tweets. Specifically, Japanese speakers use unsounded code strings at the end of tweets more frequently to particular persons than to general public while English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French speakers do not.

Pages: 31 to 40

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652