RT Book
T1 Cohesive profiling: meaning and interaction in personal weblogs
T2 Pragmatics & beyond New series
JF Pragmatics & beyond
A1 Hoffmann, Christian R. 1979-
LA English
PP Amsterdam Philadelphia
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1746339195
AB Cohesive Profiling provides one of the first linguistic descriptions of blog discourse, focusing on the cohesive relations which enable users to construe blogs as compatible meaningful wholes. With a corpus-based analysis of cohesive relations in personal blogs, the study surprisingly reveals that there is only limited cohesive rapport between the textual contributions of blog authors and readers. The book retraces blogs’ technological, linguistic and generic evolution and describes how today’s blog genres are structured and composed. Additionally, it is shown how cohesive interaction, shared knowledge and technological expertise converge in blog readers trying to keep track of blog topics, purposes and identities over time. The book is of interest to researchers in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and pragmatics as well as to scholars working in the field of computer-mediated communication.
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN P98.5.I57
SN 978-90-272-7469-4
K1 Discourse Analysis : Social aspects
K1 Blogs : Social aspects
K1 Language and the Internet
K1 Communication and technology
K1 Blogs--Social aspects
K1 Discourse analysis--Social aspects
DO 10.1075/pbns.219