Discourse Analysis is a specific type of analysis. Discourse Analysis is designed for a person who is conducting the analysis to read deeper into the sentence and text. The text I will analyze for discourse analysis is The Chat Room Transcript. The chat room is conducted by interviewers S and A. During this interview both interviewers speak about their experiences with the internet and chat rooms. The first interview was done in a perspective of interviewer A. She was speaking of her experiences of the internet and chat room when she was younger. The second interview was conducted based on what her attitude now is towards the internet. My focus on the analysis and how A became from playing the victim to a trouble maker during the interviews. During my analysis I noticed how the mood and tone changes during the two interviews. It is so important for this discourse analysis to understand how and why A went from being the victim to being a trouble maker.
Being a victim and a rebel are such drastic changes that I want to elaborate and point out why the change had occurred. The victim, for example is like someone who is being attacked, the trouble maker is most likely the ones who causes harm to the victim. With the roles of A changing so much it immediately makes one wonder what happened for A to have such a change in attitude. In the first transcript A is the victim. She uses words such as “I”. By her constant repeat of saying “I” it make one conclude that A was alone. A had an experience in her life where she thought she was talking to a boy her age on a chat room. After A exchanging information with this boy, she soon realized that he lied about his identity. A never told anyone about this experience in fear of getting into trouble with her parents. After much analysis, this is why I say she was alone because she never told anyone of her terrifying experience resulting in her always using the pronoun “I” in her first interview, symbolizing her playing the victim. In the second excerpt A uses “we” most of the time. She is very open about the fun she and her friends have on the computer. She admits that she talks to strangers on chat rooms and willing sends pictures and information. She is more confident. A no longer is the victim anymore but she is the trouble maker by sending her pictures, exchanging phone numbers and caring less about what she does. During the second interview A is more confident as oppose to the first interview where she was shy and afraid to say what happened to her.
Being a victim and a rebel are such drastic changes that I want to elaborate and point out why the change had occurred. The victim, for example is like someone who is being attacked, the trouble maker is most likely the ones who causes harm to the victim. With the roles of A changing so much it immediately makes one wonder what happened for A to have such a change in attitude. In the first transcript A is the victim. She uses words such as “I”. By her constant repeat of saying “I” it make one conclude that A was alone. A had an experience in her life where she thought she was talking to a boy her age on a chat room. After A exchanging information with this boy, she soon realized that he lied about his identity. A never told anyone about this experience in fear of getting into trouble with her parents. After much analysis, this is why I say she was alone because she never told anyone of her terrifying experience resulting in her always using the pronoun “I” in her first interview, symbolizing her playing the victim. In the second excerpt A uses “we” most of the time. She is very open about the fun she and her friends have on the computer. She admits that she talks to strangers on chat rooms and willing sends pictures and information. She is more confident. A no longer is the victim anymore but she is the trouble maker by sending her pictures, exchanging phone numbers and caring less about what she does. During the second interview A is more confident as oppose to the first interview where she was shy and afraid to say what happened to her.
While the first interview was going on S had to be the leader of the conversation between the two of them. S had to initiate most of what was being say; it was like any answer or information she received from A she had to pull out of her. S was the leader of the conversation because during this time A was the victim. S had to encourage A to tell the story, she had to reassure her that this was just between the two of them. It is ok to assume that A was embarrassed about her past because she really gave minimal detail of what happened to her during her chat room experience. Secondly because A did not tell her parents about the older mad she came across on the chat room this shows that she was fearful and ashamed of what she has done.
Going from a linguistic approach A used the word dangerous to describe her first encounter with someone she met on the internet. On her second encounter A uses the word funny to describe her meeting new people. This shows how much her attitude has changed towards the situation, she is more fearless.
All in all, all of these facts are evidence that A goes from being a victim to being a trouble maker. There are concrete facts that show how A went from being a scared and lonely victim to being a strong tough trouble maker. Because nobody knew about her meeting the older man it shows how alone she really was. After feeling victimized and alone plays a big factor in why she went from being alone to not caring what she did on the internet. I always questioned if A felt animosity towards her parents because they didn’t know anything about the internet which is why she ended up in the position that she was in. Is this why A is to protective over her sister with the internet now because she doesn’t want her dealing with what she had to deal with?
The linguistic approach and the word usage of the story, and how her attitude changes so much shows more drastically how she played the victim to the rebel. I don’t think that is was A’s growing up that happened that caused her to have such a change in attitude but more so because she got away with what she did the first time she feels invincible.
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