LEXIS AND TEXT:
PAPERS EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
"Analysing Computer Mediated Communication: Approaching the Text."
(1996) In this paper I analyse a short BBS (bulletin board service) multilogue using three approaches to the analysis of discourse traditionally applied to phonic channel/spoken medium interaction, in order to discuss the applicability of these perspectives to this CMC mode.
(1996) The song, "Washington Bullets" (1981, The Clash) is analysed as the site of resistant readings of dominant ideological formations.
“Participating in Mailing Lists: Boundaries and Identity”
(1999) Representation of identity is discussed as a function of norms and conventions of the discursive practices of discussion lists.
ATTITUDE AND EMAIL INTERACTION: Some possibilities for exploration
(2003) This folder contains a series of papers which outline the nature of Appraisal Theory and uses the resources of the subsystem of ATTITUDE to analyse a set of two texts (parts of posts) from an email list in order to discuss the possibilities for further analysis using these discourse analytic tools.
Gender Consciousness and the Norms of Interaction in Email List Dynamics: A Linguistic Perspective.
(2004) This paper addresses issues that have been raised by online mailing list participants regarding the way that gender consciousness shapes our ways of interacting with others in computer mediated communication. It focuses on 2 mailing lists in particular, where such issues have been part of actual discussion onlist, but discusses gender consciousness from the perspective of status, textual identity and ‘responsivity’ indicators.
Genre and Email: Introduction to a framework for analysing written interaction
(2005) A lengthy discussion on the relationship between the notion of 'genre' and email interaction. The paper proposes an approach to analysis incoporating a variety of perspectives on textual organisation, and the nature of the texts produced by discourse communities using this technologically mediated mode of communication.
(2007) This folder contains the 6 chapters and related pages of a PhD thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham in October 2007. It discusses an approach to the analysis of the generic staging of the typical contribution to list discussion (the post), using Attitude analysis and other more 'textual' indicators of text development. Several example posts illustrate the approach, and the thesis argues that local linguisitc conventions and identity are tightly interrelated in the study of this type of group dynamics.