Conversation analysis of forum : a selected text from paul s. Kemp online journal

الملخص EN

Language as a means of communication has long been the concern of many conversation analysts in their studies such as: Sacks et al.

(1974), Schegloff et al.

(1977), Duncan (1972), Grice (1975) and Burton (1980).

Burton has attempted analyzing the first ten transitions of the play “The Dumb Waiter” for mere a presentation of her approach.

This paper aims at analyzing the conversational structure of forum on the subject of literary fiction and genre fiction by applying Burton’s model (1980) of analysis to answer the question to what extent this model is applicable in analyzing the presented text. The findings of the investigation have proved the applicability of the structure of conversation formulated by Burton (1980) in her model without modification