A Pragmatic Study of Turn Taking and Adjacency Pairs in Online Conversations

This study tries to investigate one type of synchronous online communication, which is Internet Relay Chat, in terms conversational analysis, particularly turn-taking and adjacency pairs. Synchronous communication can be viewed as a novel medium that combines spoken, written electronic properties. There may direct causal link between the lack coherence its propensity for language play leads analysis associated with reduction coherence, disruption turn phantom adjacency. In there difficulty interpreting messages their sequential context arises from fact sequencing partly user-controlled system-controlled. disrupted pairs other stands conversation get inserted parts.