As students are participating in group work in writing classes, what are they talking about and how is their interaction organized? This study analyzes the structures of talk and embodied interaction in student group work in university writing classes...
Keywords: group work, Interaction, writing, conversation analysis, institutional talk, gesture
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis paper is a response to Richard Andrews' ‘Models of argumentation in educational discourse’, particularly to his suggestion that argument studies should turn to ethnography to understand better how argumentation is taught, learned, and deployed...
Keywords: argumentation, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, rhetoric, social practice, writing
01/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThree voices in this dialogue reconstruct the most common views on the main function of punctuation...
Keywords: writing, punctuation, comma typology, syntax, performance, intonation
01/2007 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter