ONLINE ADVICE: GIVING ADVICE IN AN INTERNET TRAVEL FORUM

Shujun Wan

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This article aims at exploring the discourse moves of giving advice in the online context with an Internet travel forum as an example. The article first reviews relevant literature concerning advice and advice giving. Previous research on online advice giving is also reviewed in the following section. Then, the instrument for data collection of the present study is introduced and online messages, including problem messages and response messages are analyzed from different aspects, e.g. problem description, discursive moves in advice messages and how the initial problem writer responded to the advice-givers. The present study finally reaches to the conclusion that advice and assessment are the two most frequent advice moves in advice messages.

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online advice, travel forum, advice-giving

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejals.v4i1.273

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