Social media platforms offer their audience the possibility to reply posts through comments and reactions. This allows social users express ideas opinions on shared content, thus opening virtual discussions. Most studies networks have focused only user relationships or while ignoring valuable information hidden in digital conversations, terms of structure discussion relation between contents, w...

This reflective piece tells the story of how I started out doing Conversation Analysis (CA) and have been transitioning into mixed methods for some years now. My basic argument is that language learning talk too complex a phenomenon to analyse using single methodology. Specifically, it extremely difficult isolate from interaction concrete evidence specific individual items in terms change cogni...

The paper attempts to demonstrate how Conversation Analysis (CA) can help us pragmatically to explore the repair organization of human talk-in-interaction via the Web, and reports on a case study of conversational repair structures for Chinese academic discussion through Web. The data collection was based on naturally occurring written interaction on Web-based discussion boards from teacher edu...

This study addresses 3 research questions in the context of online political discussions: What is the distribution of successful topic starting practices, what characterizes the content of large thread-starting messages, and what is the source of that content? A 6-month analysis of almost 40,000 authors in 20 political Usenet newsgroups identified authors who received a disproportionate number ...

The present paper’s aim is to investigate how the participants of an online learning environment employed written language in a creative way through the spontaneous use of figurative language. The content analysis showed that figurative language was a means to express the social dimension either to refer to the self, feelings and emotions, or to conceptualize the components of the virtual learn...