Publications
Thoughts in Travel 2019
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Print Edition ($27 USD, 01/01/2020)
Leaving Australia Book 2
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Leaving Australia "Again": Before the After
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PhD Thesis: Conversational Analysis of Chat Room Talk
Thesis PDF | Published 29/12/2017 on Amazon
National Library of Australia: Catalog Entry
Contact: Dr. Terrell Neuage
Thesis Resources
Thesis Home | Abstract | Glossary | Introduction | Methodology | Literature Review | Discussion | Conclusion | Bibliography
Case Studies: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Appendices: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Note: Some links may reference early drafts. Final edits are available at the University of South Australia.
Constituting the ODAM (Online Discourse Analysis Method)
Published 29/12/2017 on Amazon
Key Features:
- Use of mixed linguistic analysis methodology
- Finding strictly regulated language practices
- Main feature of online talk: Open/Creative practices
- Main features of online talk communities: Relational talk
Building from Reader Response perspectives, the ODAM examines chat postings as actively interpreted "wreaderly" communication. It offers interlocking research tools for analyzing online talk practices, revealing tightly regulated, creative, and community-focused discourse.
Research Questions
- Is meaning communicated in chatrooms?
- How is turn-taking negotiated within chatrooms?
- Are issues of cultural sensitivity as relevant as in face-to-face talk?
- How is electronic chat reflective of current social discourses?
- Will chat become a universally understood language?
Assumptions
- People create a different textual self for the chatroom environment.
- Conversation within chatrooms will change how we come to know others.
- Chat does not differ significantly from natural conversation.
- Observational studies of chatroom conversation can capture adaptations of conversational behaviors.
- Chatrooms are an important area for creating new conversational research theory.
Acknowledgements
Leigh Neuage (6th July 1983 - 16th August 2003)
"Every place I go, I go with you. Thanks for being always with me. I only wish I could be with you. Every day is more difficult than the one before." - 04 September 2010
