Neuage
– PhD thesis on Conversational analysis of chat room talk - updated 8
November 2001
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working on CASE
STUDY 6: Case
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Case study 2:
case study 1: URLS FOR CASE STUDIES SO FAR
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Methods for chapter three Discourse
Analysis
According to Tannen (1989, p6) the term Discourse Analysis does not refer to a
particular method of analysis. It does not describe a theoretical perspective
or methodological framework but instead describes the object of study: language
beyond the sentence. We can make use of this perspective by saying language
beyond the a single turn-taking taken within a context of other utterances by
the same ‘speaker’ creates a dialogue whereas the single utterance on its own
often is difficult to find meaning for.
This concept will be developed in the study of this case study.
Discourse Analysis studies complete text (both
written and spoken), giving attention to textual form, structure and
organization at all levels; phonological, grammatical, lexical and higher
levels of textual organization in terms of exchange systems, structures of
argumentation, and generic structures: within social, political and
institutional practices of dialogue (Fairclough 1982, 89, 95). Its analysis
then extends out to its social and cultural context and is translated into a
meaning that one responds to in a following turn-taking sequence in the chat
room.
Incomplete methods section – note forum
Protocol (not developed) http://se.unisa.edu.au/phd/chapter3/protocol.htm
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