Representing Audiences in Writing Center Consultation: A Discourse Analysis

Abstract

The article offers information on the results of the qualitative discourse analysis regarding how tutors carry out their consultation work in representing audiences to their clients. It states that the author devised an analysis method in determining the function and form of the phenomenon by identifying the forms wherein the audiences are represented and describing the communicative functions. It mentions that tutors assume footings, refers to the coined term of Erving Goffman which describes the speaker's words and identity relationship, when they represent audiences to their clients in which word allignment is refracted and indirect. It also discusses the analyzed tutorial dialogues of Goffman.