The expression of social presence through the use of figurative language in a web-based learning environment

Delfino, Manuela; Manca, Stefania

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2006.03.001

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“…If teachers and developers create the SP in the distance learning systems, they should increase interaction between student teacher and classmate. This result is consistent with recent studies results (Delfino & Manca, 2007;Murphy & Rodríguez-Manzanares, 2008;Olpak & Çakmak, 2009;Swan & Shih, 2005;Wise, Chang, Duffy, & del Vale, 2004). Furthermore, the model of this study generates some indirect relationship between the variables.…”

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Interaction, Structure, Social Presence, and Satisfaction in Online Learning

Horzum

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

114

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There have been various studies about interaction, structure, social presence and satisfaction in online learning; however, there is not any research which represents the relationships among these concepts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among these variables. The population of the study is involved 205 university students who enrolled bachelor degree completion program at the Ankara University. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesizes. The results of this study indicated that there is a negative correlation between the course structure and interaction dimensions defined by Moore in transactional distance theory. Secondly, online students" social presence was predicted positively by interaction and negatively by course structure. Furthermore, online learning satisfaction was predicted positively by social presence. Students are most satisfied when their social presences are high in the online learning.

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“…SP is another factor that affects the satisfaction in online learning environments. In the related literature, SP is one of the significant predictor of both satisfaction and perceived learning outcomes (Delfino & Manca, 2007;Murphy & Rodríguez-Manzanares, 2008;Swan & Shih, 2005;Wise, Chang, Duffy, & del Vale, 2004).…”

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Interaction, Structure, Social Presence, and Satisfaction in Online Learning

Horzum

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

114

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“…It has been found in Chinese cultures that CMC participants develop paralanguage and emoticons to convey social and emotional feelings in sub-cyber-cultures (Tu, 2005). Delfino and Manca (2007) both concluded that adoptions of figurative languages would improve social presence.…”

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A Multiple-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Scores for Online Social Presence: Do They Measure the Same Thing across Cultural Groups?

Yen

2011

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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Online learners and instructors are more diverse in their social and cultural backgrounds than their counterparts in face-to-face classrooms. The diversified social and cultural backgrounds of online learners and instructors complicate the conceptualization of online social presence and pose challenges to instructors in course design. This study conducted a multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis of the scores from the Computer-Mediated Communication Questionnaire (CMCQ), using Structural Equation Modeling, to assess the equality of the underlying factor structure across the low-context culture (LCC) and the high-context culture (HCC) groups. The results suggested that cultural groups perceived online social presence in a slightly different manner. Perception differences were observed in three of the four dimensions of online social presence.

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“…The mediation, moreover, may also be a way of trying to make sense of one's own emotional experience or a critical event (Delfino, Manca 2007). For instance, cancer patients use metaphors to talk about their illness (Koller 2013;Semino 2014), and students in online learning environments use metaphors to mediate their emotions and learning difficulties in written online discourse (Delfino, Manca 2007;Cavalcanti, Bizon 2008). In this sense, we see emotions 2 as situated: "emotions are not only expressive strategies, they are also negotiating strategies" (Griffiths, Scarantino 2009: 446-447).…”

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The Therapeutic Function of Metaphor: the Case of Emotions in the Croatian Public Discourse

Stanojević

Čičin-Šain

2015

10.14746/pss

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In this paper we (re-)examine the role of deliberate metaphors in the public discourse. Based on an analysis of metaphorical comments to the articles reporting on a dispute between the Croatian Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, we argue that in addition to a number of established discursive functions, metaphor may perform a therapeutic function aiding commenters in working through their emotions. Our analyses of the course that comments take shows that they are not structured according to a usual turn-taking logic, but rather on the basis of the coherence of the emotions shared by the commenters. Moreover, the tripartite internal structure of the comments (identifying the critical event, running the blend, possibly offering a solution to the critical event) is aimed at symbolically delegitimizing politicians, putting the author in charge of the experience, thus enabling him/her to work through it. Theoretically, such a view suggests that on the discourse level it is not necessarily metaphor that is used as the structuring device, but that emotion can structure metaphor.

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The expression of social presence through the use of figurative language in a web-based learning environment

Cited by 46 publications

References 23 publications

Interaction, Structure, Social Presence, and Satisfaction in Online Learning

Interaction, Structure, Social Presence, and Satisfaction in Online Learning

A Multiple-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Scores for Online Social Presence: Do They Measure the Same Thing across Cultural Groups?

The Therapeutic Function of Metaphor: the Case of Emotions in the Croatian Public Discourse

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