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Electronic discourse : linguistic individuals in virtual space / Boyd H. Davis and Jeutonne P. Brewer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Boyd H.
- Series:
- SUNY series in computer-mediated communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis--Data processing.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens.
- This book examines interactive electronic discourse, exposing use of language that has the immediacy characteristic of speech and the permanence characteristic of writing. The authors created an asynchronous mainframe conference for language and linguistics classes in which they presented students with the task of analyzing the language used in original newspaper reports of the 1960s Civil Rights Sitlns. The authors observed how students wrote to each other across a wide range of social and virtual settings, how they built a real, if short-lived, community within and across campus boundaries, and how they handled conflict while avoiding confrontation on sensitive issues of race and power. The result is a study that details how people use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens, and how their exchange is affected by computer conferencing.
- The students who wrote in the electronic conferences faced two interrelated tasks: participating in a multiparty "conversation" and negotiating the individual identities they presented to one another in their virtual space. Individual writers used their own idiolects to influence the form and content of electronic discourse, adapting their own tacit knowledge of conversational strategies and written discourse to the new medium, as they created a real, although temporary, community.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791434753
- 0791434761
- OCLC:
- 36649119
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