Publications

Publication details [#54925]

Pojanapunya, Punjaporn and Kandaporn Jaroenkitboworn. 2011. How to say “Good-bye” in Second Life. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (14) : 3591–3602.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational closing | cybernetics | discourse strategy | face maintenance | internet

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study of conversational closings in the virtual world of Second Life participants, represented by their digital avatars, demonstrates a clear concern about “face” or “face-saving” even in a cyberworld context.