Interaktion und Interpretation in russischsprachigen Threads

Interaktion und Interpretation in russischsprachigen Threads

Interaction and interpretation in russian forum threads

Genia Böhnisch
née Kapustina

Doctoral thesis

Date of Examination: 2018-08-17

Date of issue: 2018-10-08

Advisor: Junghanns, Uwe Prof. Dr.

Referee: Zybatow, Gerhild Prof. Dr.

Referee: Holler, Anke Prof. Dr.

Persistent Address: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E4BE-A

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Abstract

English

The following dissertation deals with issues concerning interaction and interpretation in russian forum threads and compares the findings with results and assumptions made for oral communication. Important questions are : How do people interact? What are characteristic traits? What are similarities with and differences from oral communication? What does a reader need to interpret an utterance correctly? Which cues are important? This dissertation will show that there are specific traits that differentiate interactions in forum threads from oral interactions. In order to answer the part of the questions concerning the interpretation of utterances, some experiments are made, that will show, that in most cases emoticons and other potential cues are not as important for interpretation as lexical cues and the context.

Keywords: Interaction; Interpretation; Internet; Russian; Forum thread