Conversation levels and interaction communicative resources on Twitter

  • Noemí Elisa Guerrero Contreras Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Keywords: social media, Twitter, face-to-face conversation, communication resources, online interaction, participants, microblogging, turn taking

Abstract

The goal of this research is to do a review of the online communication, taking as axis the analysis of the interactive communication characteristics in the social media versus the face-to-face conversation. The Twitter communication is an example that, similarly to the communication in presence, it is deemed conversational. In the first place, by means of the data group of cases study, this investigation will focus in examine different strategies like the retweet, the mentions (@), the hashtag function and the direct replies as resources via the users can be integrated in the conversation. Secondly, will be generally contrasted the communication properties inside to the virtual interaction frame compared the face to face conversation characteristics. Thus, this paper study how the communicative interactional resources on Twitter are established as conversational practices.

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Author Biography

Noemí Elisa Guerrero Contreras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Noemí Elisa Guerrero Contreras graduated in Hispanic Language and Literatures from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specialized in Linguistics. She holds a Master’s degree in Hispanic Linguistics by the same university, where she studied cognitive semantics under the supervision of Professor Ricardo Maldonado. Among her research interests are cognitive grammar, Spanish linguistics, syntax/semantics interface, computational linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics.

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Published
01-06-2016
How to Cite
Guerrero Contreras, N. (2016). Conversation levels and interaction communicative resources on Twitter. Texts in Process, 2(1), 145-161. https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2016.2.1.7neguerrerocontreras
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Working papers