Skrift vs. tale på internettet: Et argument for en interaktionelt fokuseret tilgang til skriftlige samtaler på Facebook

This article is centered around the discussion on the relationship between spoken and writtenlanguage in online written discourse, which it investigates from the perspective of interactionalgrammar (“samtalegrammatik”). The purpose of the article is to highlight certain shortcomings inthe discussion as it has played out so far and to argue for a different approach to it, inspired byconversation analysis.After an introduction to the discussion, a CA-inspired analysis of a phenomenon of oralinteractional grammar, namely questions in the declarative used in threads in two Facebookgroups, is presented. It is concluded that using the method is possible and that the phenomenoninvestigated works in the same way on Facebook as it does in oral interaction. The article discusseswhat perspectives these findings give on the discussion on the relationship between speech andwriting in online written discourse.Finally, it is recommended that more investigations of this sort are conducted, among other thingsto refine the method and to further investigate what insights it can provide on the relationshipbetween spoken and written language online.This article is centered around the discussion on the relationship between spoken and writtenlanguage in online written discourse, which it investigates from the perspective of interactionalgrammar (“samtalegrammatik”). The purpose of the article is to highlight certain shortcomings inthe discussion as it has played out so far and to argue for a different approach to it, inspired byconversation analysis.After an introduction to the discussion, a CA-inspired analysis of a phenomenon of oralinteractional grammar, namely questions in the declarative used in threads in two Facebookgroups, is presented. It is concluded that using the method is possible and that the phenomenoninvestigated works in the same way on Facebook as it does in oral interaction. The article discusseswhat perspectives these findings give on the discussion on the relationship between speech andwriting in online written discourse.Finally, it is recommended that more investigations of this sort are conducted, among other thingsto refine the method and to further investigate what insights it can provide on the relationshipbetween spoken and written language online