VLOGS AS DISCOURSE

The technology elites have spawned another fad of the intemet taking the idea of a dog to the next level to what is called vlogging. Vlogging is the act of doing a vlog of the people who talk directly to the camera in a conversational style, discussing their opinions with their audience and generally sharing content on social media. This study is about oral discourse of vlogs from selected Asian countries specifically Japan, Philippines and Singapore. In order to know the discourses of the vloggers from these selected Asian countries, the researcher focused on their use of linguistic and non-linguistic elements of their second language which is English as manifested in their video blogs. It tried to find out the linguistic elements which are the fragmented utterances, meaning negotiations, backchannels, overlaps, hesitations, and lexical choices. It also tried to find out the registers of the vlog which consist of field, mode and tenor. Lastly, it summed up the overall message of the vlog. It was found out that the vloggers from three selected Asian countries varied in their usage of English especially in using their own lexical choices. Moreover, vlogs which had more conversational participants had more elements found because of the exchange of dialogues.