Naabruspaarid ja kategoriseerimine netikommentaarides kui sidusa dialoogi loomise vahendid
Adjacency pairs and categorization in Internet commentaries as means of creating a coherent dialogue

Summary/Abstract: We are studying how an inherent dialogue structure is established by the conglomeration of an Internet opinion article and its comments. We are using methodology of conversation analysis with the focus on membership categorization analysis. Empirical material of the current study is a news article published on the Estonian Internet portal Delfi meant for commenting and its 171 anonymous comments. The study shows that the core structure of the dialogue is formed by microdialogues consisting of two turns: the source article and its comment. Coherent parallel sub-dialogues are formed like in the spoken conversation. Relations between turns are formed following the social norms of building adjacency pairs in spoken face-to-face interactions, even though the participants do not have responsibility for the maintenance of the conversation.

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