After a meeting with Alison, we decided to rethink the focus of our research question, using the same research case studies, we thought that we should focus on
"creative insults"
people got noticed on all of our case studies because of the way they used language, and if we could each analyse our own case studies (it can include anything off that persons twitter site, from whatever time) and pick out key features that make it offensive for monday that would be excellent.
Things like:
Imperatives
Focus on subject (who its directed at)
Gender
Functions of the language
Declarative
Interrogative
Negative
Individual offensive lexis.
On monday we will meet at 12 for 2 hours to compare findings and recognise patterns and recurring linguistic elements used to make up creative insults? Then collate and come up with some sort of conclusion!!
Also if we could all find just one piece of literature each about creative insults/language of social networking to bring.
I hope this change of direction will be fruitful. I posted some suggested reading last week - have you had a look at it?
ReplyDeleteRemember that it's fine to explain in your presentation how you came to change your project and why; just make clear what you've learned from the work throughout the semester.
Yes, thank you for the suggestions of literature, we are using some of the sources to compile our literature review.
ReplyDeleteOK. Good. Hope things are still going to plan.
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