Re: [Air-l] Chat Room Study

have you seen the work on critical discourse analysis? there r a few websites on it. i think the distinction being made is arbitrary at best, what is the difference in a chatroom between an action and a stated action? none that i can see. i can see the inference between what the people say they will do and what they do is not permitted, but you could not make that inference from chats alone. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments