Rapport building in student group work

• Published in: Journal of pragmatics Vol. 43; no. 12; pp. 2932 - 2947
• Main Author: ADEL, Annelie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.09.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: College Students; Cooperative Learning; Corpus Analysis; Discourse; Discourse Analysis; Discourse semiotics; Discourse studies; Group Communication; Group Work; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Internet; Interpersonal Communication; Language; Language Acquisition; Language Usage; Languages and linguistics; Learning; Linguistic subjects; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Lingvistikämnen; Phatic communication; Rapport; Rapport building; Språkvetenskap; Students; taxonomy; Rapport; Rapport building; Group work; Phatic communication; Report; Interaction; Discourse function; University environment; Corpus; English; Computer-assisted language learning; Discourse type; Discourse analysis

► Rapport building (communicative acts promoting social concord) is studied in group work. ► Corpus-based and discourse-analytical methods are combined. ► The primary material is student discussions from an online learning management system. ► Spoken face-to-face study group discussions are also con...