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BL
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702664
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b524853
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| Main Entry
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Davis, Boyd H.
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| Title & Author
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Electronic discourse : : linguistic individuals in virtual space /\ Boyd H. Davis and Jeutonne P. Brewer.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c1997.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in computer-mediated communication
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| Page. NO
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xv, 217 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791434753
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: 0791434761 (pbk.)
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: 9780791434758
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: 9780791434765 (pbk.)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
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| Contents
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1. A first look at electronic discourse -- 2. Context and contact in electronic discourse -- 3. Entering the conferences: Challenges of time and space -- 4. Titles: Form and function in electronic discourse -- 5. Defining the territory -- 6. Taking a stance: Text, self, and other -- 7. Aspects of emulation -- 8. Emulating a strategy: The rhetorical question -- 9. Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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This book examines interactive electronic discourse, exposing use of language that has the immediacy characteristic of speech and the permanence characteristic of writing. The authors created an asynchronous mainframe conference for language and linguistics classes in which they presented students with the task of analyzing the language used in original newspaper reports of the 1960s Civil Rights Sit-Ins. The authors observed how students wrote to each other across a wide range of social and virtual settings, how they built a real, if short-lived community within and across campus boundaries, and how they handled conflict while avoiding confrontation on sensitive issues of race and power.
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The result is a study that details how people use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens, and how their exchange is affected by computer conferencing.
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| Subject
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Discourse analysis-- Data processing.
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| LC Classification
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P302.3.D38 1997
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| Added Entry
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Brewer, Jeutonne P., (Jeutonne Patten),1939-2016.
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