IrRelevant and Chaotic or Indeed Relatively Cooperative? : A Gricean comparison of chatroom and face-to-face interaction

IrRelevant and Chaotic or Indeed Relatively Cooperative? : A Gricean comparison of chatroom and face-to-face interaction

Chatroom conversations often elicit an initial impression of chaos. This is probably chiefly due to disrupted adjacency sequences, but also a result of the language being rich in non-standard linguistic forms and grammar. This study explores chatroom conversations with reference to Grice’s (1975) co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hals, Elisabeth
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Växjö universitet, Institutionen för humaniora 2006
Subjects:
Computer-mediated communication
cooperative principle
face-to-face conversation
Grice
IRC
maxims of conversation
relevance
Specific Languages
Studier av enskilda språk
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