Evaluative language for rapport building in virtual collaboration: an analysis of appraisal in computer-mediated interaction
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UAM. Departamento de Filología InglesaPublisher
Taylor and Francis GroupDate
2017-10-03Citation
10.1080/14708477.2017.1378227
Language and Intercultural Communication 18.3 (2018): 335-350
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1470-8477 (print); 1747-759X (online)DOI
10.1080/14708477.2017.1378227Funded by
This work was supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad: [Grant Number EDU2014 54673R]Project
Gobierno de España. EDU2014 54673REditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2017.1378227Subjects
Appraisal theory; asynchronous communication; CMC interaction; intercultural exchanges; virtual collaboration; FilologíaNote
This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language and Intercultural Communication on 3 Oct. 2017, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14708477.2017.1378227Rights
© 2018 Taylor & FrancisAbstract
The main objective of this study is to explore how students who participate in virtual intercultural exchanges use evaluative language to build rapport and encourage collaboration. Data were gathered from 211 email messages sent by 40 Spanish and American university students and were tagged following Martin and White’s Appraisal model. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the lexico-grammatical tokens revealed that the participants used mostly Affect tokens in their interaction. This suggests that the students preferred expressing their own feelings and emotions rather than judging their partners’ behaviour or evaluating phenomena as a strategy to construct a positive and appealing personal identity
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