This article extends the use of the personal position repertoire beyond the psychotherapy domain, adopting it as a research method applied to the psychology of communication. The aim is to investigate the features of short message system (SMS) communication in a sample of late adolescents. Across 2 analyses on the same corpus of 3,890 SMS messages, evidence has been presented that a composite index of contents could be related to an overall index of dialogical positions. The results have been supported by diatextual analysis (Mininni, 1992,2000), so as to better grasp the relations among interlocutors, text, and context; thus recalling the dialectic process of sense construction realized through communicative events. Consistent with the predictions derived from previous research, the study suggests that new media actually emphasize the development of self positions.
The Diatextual Construction of Self in SMS
CORTINI, Michela;
2004-01-01
Abstract
This article extends the use of the personal position repertoire beyond the psychotherapy domain, adopting it as a research method applied to the psychology of communication. The aim is to investigate the features of short message system (SMS) communication in a sample of late adolescents. Across 2 analyses on the same corpus of 3,890 SMS messages, evidence has been presented that a composite index of contents could be related to an overall index of dialogical positions. The results have been supported by diatextual analysis (Mininni, 1992,2000), so as to better grasp the relations among interlocutors, text, and context; thus recalling the dialectic process of sense construction realized through communicative events. Consistent with the predictions derived from previous research, the study suggests that new media actually emphasize the development of self positions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
