Conversational Analysis of Chat Room Talk PHD thesis by Dr. Terrell Neuage University of South Australia National Library of Australia. Thesis full text availalbe from the University of South Australia library
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A thesis to be submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
School of Communication and Information Studies
University of South Australia
Supervisors:
Jackie Cook
Associate Professor Clara Woods
Contents:
last updated month/day/yearSECTION ONE
1. Abstract last updated
2. Acknowledgments last updated
3. Publications based on this research last updated
4. Introduction last updated
i. Analysing Chatroom ‘talk’
ii. How ‘chat’ differes’ from natural conversation’
5. Literature Review last updated 11/11/1999
i. INTRODUCTION
ii. Conversational Analysis (CA)
iii. Speech Act (SA)
iv. Discourse Analysis (DA)
v. Reading Theory
vi. Computer Mediated Communciation (CMC)
Electronic Communicated Analysis
Computational Linguistics
Text and Corpus Analysis
vii. PRAGMATICS
viii. SEMIOTICS
Lingusitcis
Bibliography and notes
6. Methodology
i. Develpment of a protocol of a transcription methodology
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ii. Grammatical pattenrs in chatroom ‘talk’ including use of abbreviations and emoticons last updated
111. Turn-taking and threads last updated
iv. Types of chatrooms last updated
SECTION TWO CHATROOM ANAYLSIS
7. Chatroom types and anaylsis of their ‘talk’
i. Emergency: Example from Hurrican Floyd ‘chat’ last updated 4/02/00
ii. Topic specific Astrology ‘chat’ last updated 4/01/00
iii. General chat - no specific topic last updated 4/01/00
iv. topic specific - Web3d computer modelling ‘chat’ last updated 4/01/00
v. General chat in a topic specific chatroom - Britney Spears Chat Room’ last updated 4/01/00
vi. topic specific - ‘baseball chat’ last updated 4/01/00
8. Conclusion
9. Notes last updated 4/01/00
9. Bibliography last updated 4/01/00
10. Appendices
i. Proposal for Thesis
ii. Ethics proposal and approval
iii. links to other work available on the Interent relating to Chatrooms, MUDS, MOOS, IRC, virtual communities and etc.
iv. southernexpressway an on-line journal from the Univesity of South Australia with a chatroom incorporated for the harvesting of research for this thesis. last updated 4/01/00
v. Homepage of Terrell Neuage. last updated 4/01/00
vi. Masters thesis on The Influence of the Interent on Literautre
vii. Glossary: common abbreviations; emoticons last updated 4/01/00