Entre o oral e o escrito: a heterogeneidade lingüística das conversações escritas on-line

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the uses of the written language in the Internet chat rooms and in similar virtual discourses, examining the heterogeneity, affluence and complexity of the language in those means as well as demonstrating as the traditional dichotomy between spoken and written discourse has been unmade regarding the peculiar features of these new discursive forms. The virtual chat came up trough Internet advent and its written code has revealed a new relation of the man with writing once it has brought up linguistic innovations, has detached language as a phenomenon of linguistic diversity and differences and has made linguistics to realize how theoretically irrelevant has been the acclaimed spoken/written dichotomy. For the initially described aims, this research based its theoretical perspective in the language uses, which points out language as a heterogeneous and dynamical phenomenon.