+ Social Relationships

-- KerstinFischer - 29 Apr 2003

Much of our communicational activity is not just devoted to transmitting information, but to creating and maintaining interpersonal relationships. The question is how IRC and MUD and possibly other media affect the social functions of language.

Focussing on the Creation of Social Membership (`we-ness'), this topic will be prepared and presented to us by Dennis and Oliver.

Papers:

Bays, H. (1998): Framing and Face in Internet Exchanges: A Socio-Cognitive Approach. Linguistik on-line 1,1.

Jacobson, D. (1999): Impression Formation in Cyberspace: Online Expectations and Offline Experiences in Text-based Virtual Communities. JCMC 5,1, 1999.

Serpentelli, J.: Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates of Electronic Communication.

Reid, E. (1991): Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat.