Towards a pedagogy of relational space and trust: Analyzing distributed collaboration using discourse and speech act analysis

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 233-248

  McNair, Lisa D ^a   Paretti, Marie C ^a   Davitt, Marcia ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; discourse analysis; distributed work; pedagogy; speech acts; trust

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COLLABORATION; DEGREE-OF-KNOWLEDGE; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; DISTRIBUTED WORK; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; PEDAGOGY; SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS; SPEECH ACTS; TRUST;

TEACHING;

EID: 77952847609     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2010.2052857     Document Type: Article

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