DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2021-5-4-30-33
Abstract. Nowadays, in the computer age, when the vast part of negotiations and usual talks are conducted in various social networks, the problem of virtual discourse comprehension becomes especially urgent, as we come across the necessity of being understood correctly. Virtual communication differs from live speech in a range of aspects, which are: firstly, any virtual discourse has a sub-language of hybrid character, combining elements of oral and written discourse with its own specific features; secondly, unlike live communication it is marked by the absence of visual contact which can be compensated by emoji characters; incomplete perception of the interlocutor’s true intentions causes sometimes a dramatic lack of specificity in understanding; thirdly, it contains a lot of drastic abridgements and abbreviations; and, finally, it can belong to simultaneously two symbolic systems (verbal and non-verbal). All the listed specific features of the virtual discourse have an impact on the processes of inference and can cause misunderstanding. The paper focuses on the virtual discourse features and shows the way the inferential process depends on them. In conclusion, the paper reveals the difference between inference processes in real-time communication and in a social chat pointing out that the latter is more subjective, gap-filling, less context-dependent, less coherent and cohesive.
Keywords: inference, virtual discourse, comprehension, creolised text, real-time communication, gap-filling, social networks, virtual communication.
Authors:
Elena V. Suvorova, Associate Professor, Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor of Institute of International Law and Economics named after A.S. Griboedov; Moscow, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yuliya. G. Romanova, Associate Professor, Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor of Institute of International Law and Economics named after A.S. Griboedov; Moscow, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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For citation
Suvorova E.V., Romanova Yu. G. Inference in the Virtual Discourse, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2021, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 30–33.