Discussion of the six case studies used in this thesis on chat room ‘talk’ analysis. TABLE X12/summary

Table from Case Study One

Table X12

Theory used		Case study	Title	Chat-log	# of users	Turns recorded	# words[i]
Reader-Response Theory		chapter 1	storm	1	45	279	2001
Reading Theory - (also - hypertextuality)		chapter 1
Speech Act (SA) theory		Chapter 2	Astrology 'chat' ----	2	16	85
Discourse Analysis (DA)		Chapter 3	General chat	3	11	89
Conversational Analysis (CA)		Chapter 4	Web3d computer modeling 'chat' ----	4	8	511
Semiotics (Pragmatics)		Chapter 5	Britney Spears Chat Room '	5	17	70	297
Linguistic schools of thought		Chapter 6	'baseball chat'	6	13	155	570
		Chapter 7	IM		2
110	1189

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[i] Number of words are words written – including abbreviations. User names and emoticons are not included.