A sociosemiotic approach to processes of textual and interaction norm change in distributed virtual environments

Patrick John Coppock

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Faculty of Arts

Department of Applied Linguistics

N-7055 Dragvoll

e-mail: patcop@alfa.avh.unit.no

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1. Introduction
2. Preamble
3. Making meaning out of "content"
4. Meaning-making in distributed virtual environments
5. The socio-semiotics of human - computer interactions
6. Some subjective experiences of human - computer interaction
7. Investigating the dynamics of changing norm systems in distributed virtual environments
8. Closing
9. Notes
10. References