The use of Facebook and WhatsApp by Mu'tah University students : a linguistic study

العناوين الأخرى

استخدام الفيس بوك و الواتس أب من قبل طلاب جامعة مؤتة : دراسة لغوية

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Dhunaybat, Marwan Muhammad

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

al-Sakarnah, Ahmad Khalaf

أعضاء اللجنة

al-Rashdan, Bashshar Shahir
Kanakri, Mahmud Ali
al-Sarayirah, Atif Ata Allah Id

الجامعة

جامعة مؤتة

الكلية

كلية الآداب

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2015

الملخص الإنجليزي

This study focuses on the communication of Mutah University students on Facebook and WhatsApp.

It investigates the differences between this communication and traditional written texts through the techniques which make these differences.

Also, it takes the internet linguistics to be its framework.

This study adopts three instruments to collect the data, the questionnaire, the survey and the observation.

The samples of the study are collected from two sites created by the researcher on Facebook and WhatsApp for Mutah University students.

The data are reviewed and analyzed.

Accordingly, it is found that the students use Facebook and WhatsApp for three purposes.

These are classified under scientific, social and entertaining purposes.

The study, also, has found many differences when comparing the written language used by Mutah University students in the Facebook and WhatsApp communication to traditional written language.

The differences are represented by seven techniques which are the focus of the study.

These techniques include Arabic-English code switching, abbreviations, leetspeak, emoticons, rebus, reduplication of letters and lexical deviations.

The reasons for these techniques are discussed, too, and it appears that they are used for economic, textual, social and scientific reasons.

This study shows that the social usage is dominant where the techniques are used, and that the code switching style of language is suitable for all purposes in Facebook and WhatsApp.

Finally, it is recommended, for other linguistic research works, to investigate the syntactic, morphological and semantic phenomena among this community.

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم التربوية
اللغات والآداب المقارنة
تكنولوجيا المعلومات وعلم الحاسوب

الموضوعات

• الجامعات
• الطلاب
• مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي
• الأردن
• اللسانيات الحاسوبية

عدد الصفحات

53

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-673680