Coding for Introductions
In a first pass through the total 246 introductory posts in the corpus, I designated 174 introductions as “successful” and 72 as “unsuccessful” based on whether or not they generated significant and sustained response threads, with significant response defined as 5 or more responses including discussions that extended over 8-12 weeks of the project zeitschriften kostenlos downloaden. I also coded all of the introductory posts as “me-focused” or “other-focused,” or both, noting any segments in which the student poster directed questions to a real or imagined addressee or acknowledged a potential respondent or any “other” out there, in any way demon slayer herunterladen.
In a second coding pass for the introductory posts and responses, I coded both the introductions themselves and the sequence of responses for the expressive tone of the writing (playful/ludic or earnest) and how each segment was written, specifically looking for how paralinguistic emotional cues and “phatic” moves were encoded in each segment faded. I developed the subcodes for the playful/humorous and earnest codes out of significant patterns that came out of my initial reviews of the corpus.
