Speech acts and phrases of knowledge construction in asynchoronous discourse / Alice Shanthi... [et al.]

• Main Authors: Alice, Shanthi, Xavier, Thayalan, Jane, Xavierine, Hamuddin, Budiando
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2017
• Subjects: Content analysis (Communication); Oral communication. Speech
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29487/1/29487.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29487/; https://nsembilan.uitm.edu.my/joacns/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

This paper presents the findings of a study conducted in Malaysia pertaining to the speech acts commonly used for information sharing in web-forums. Data was purposively selected from online forums to answer the research questions. The messages in the data were categorised based on Searle’s (1976) S...