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OverviewInvestigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Boyd H. Davis , Jeutonne P. BrewerPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780791434765ISBN 10: 0791434761 Pages: 217 Publication Date: 02 October 1997 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface 1:// A first look at electronic discourse On defining electronic discourse Writing that reads like conversation Speaking and writing: Biber's dimensions Multidisciplinary perspectives Selected approaches to discourse analysis Description of the corpus Using the concordance: An example 2:// Context and contact in electronic discourse Repetition in electronic conference discourse An emergent register Electronic conferences as ""Town meetings"" Changing contexts within a conference Some purposes behind repetition in electronic discourse 3:// Entering the conferences: Challenges of time and space Electronic writing: The ""early"" period The subject of the conferences: What students brought as ""given"" Setting and participants: A closer look Accessing the conference: The challenge of spaces Space and time in the arrangement of conference texts The impact of realigned times and settings on monitor screens The challenge of expectations about genre Replies as new frames 4:// Titles: Form and function in electronic discourse The impact of conference topography Conventions of direct address in titles Titles as suggestive of self-disclosure The titling game and its impact Managing community: Software and moderator impact 5:// Defining the territory Individual views of the territory Guarding the territory Syntactic cues: Personal pronouns It behaves differently Genderin the territory Brent's territorial moves 6:// Taking a stance: Text, self, and other Aspects of modality Modality: A range of definitions The individual and the text Verb classes Contexts and modal verbs A change in audience 7:// Aspects of emulation Popularity and rhythm Moving to reflexive writing Emulation across distance and space in the Transparent Conference Adjacency-pairs in the Transparent Conference Frame and focus in Topic 2 Some features of audience in the Transparent Conference Flocking behaviors in mainframe conferences 8:// Emulating a strategy: The rhetorical question Features of rhetorical questions Rhetorical questions from the Stand-Alone Conference Rhetorical questions in the Transparent Conference 9://Conclusion Going across local boundaries Reading the text after the conference A notion of virtual community A final comment Appendices References Index"ReviewsThis book describes a longitudinal study of college students acquiring and using one type of this new discourse, computer conferencing. The work is especially valuable because it describes use in as natural a setting as possible. --Denise Murray, San Jose State University Author InformationBoyd H. Davis is Professor in the Department of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her work includes Dimensions of Language and Writing about Literature and Film (with Margaret B. Bryan), among others. Jeutonne P. Brewer is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has written Dialect Clash in America: Issues and Answers (with Paul D. Brandes), among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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