Abstract:
This study attempts an analysis of the lexico-semantic and grammatical features of cyber begging. The study draws insights from Systemic Functional Linguistics to analyse data, consisting of twenty cyber begging texts that were purposively sampled from four popular begging sites: www.cyberbeg.com, www.DonateMoney2me.com, www.ebeggars.com, and www.freebeg.com; through document analysis. Analysis reveals that while lexico-semantic features encompass compounding as associated with medical and accommodation issues and lexical repetition as deployed to project the seriousness of online beggars' financial pleas. Grammatical features constitute two main transitivity processes: material process connected with three discourse issues (indebtedness, accommodation, and medical needs) and relational process, associated with the same three discourse issues. The explication and comprehension of the lexico-semantic and grammatical features provides useful insights into cyber begging discourse.
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