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Discourse Analysis

A topic within Semantics & Pragmatics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.

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Book2013

(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A Pragmatic Analysis of Message Board Relations

Jenny Arendholz

Analyses real message-board exchanges to argue that what counts as appropriate or rude online is negotiated locally by a community rather than fixed by a universal politeness norm.

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A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation

Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson

Argues ordinary conversation follows a small set of turn-allocation rules, operating locally turn by turn, that explain how speaker change happens with minimal gap or overlap without anyone directing it.

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(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A Pragmatic Analysis of Message Board Relations

A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation

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