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Being lucky--virtual performative speech acts.
Abstract
Learner conversations within a web-based adult online learning community for trainee London (UK) cabbies were studied and here are broadly categorised into three main conversational themes: content, process, and affect. The third theme, affect, includes learner interactions that operate in a register of mutual support and well-wishing. This paper utilises speech act theory to help understand the function(s) of emotion-based online conversations. It posits the existence of an affective channel of interaction that acts as a performative field of interpersonal exchange, one that gives normally atomised learners a venue in which they can leverage their ...
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