05698nam 22007811 450 991096762650332120240402010305.09789027270986902727098810.1075/pbns.237(CKB)2550000001166685(EBL)1574381(SSID)ssj0001059928(PQKBManifestationID)11593714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059928(PQKBWorkID)11086578(PQKB)11359218(MiAaPQ)EBC1574381(Au-PeEL)EBL1574381(CaPaEBR)ebr10813549(CaONFJC)MIL548055(OCoLC)864899697(DE-B1597)721252(DE-B1597)9789027270986(EXLCZ)99255000000116668520131212h20132013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrLanguage and power in blogs interaction, disagreements and agreements /Brook Bolander1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :John Benjamins Publishing Company,[2013]©20131 online resource (291 p.)Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ;237Pragmatics & beyond new seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9789027256423 902725642X 9781306168045 130616804X Includes bibliographical references and index.Language and Power in Blogs; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of tables and figures; Chapter 1. Introducing language use and power in personal/diary blogs; 1.1 Overture; 1.2 Laying out the dual approach to power; 1.3 Research questions and scope; Interactional patterns, topic control and implications for power; Agreements and disagreements: Their role and ties to power; 1.4 Structure; Chapter 2. Blogging as a social practice; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Introducing blogs; 2.2.1 A working definition of blogs2.2.2 Personal/diary blogs: An increasingly-popular sub-type 2.3 Frames in blog communities of practice; 2.3.1 The participant framework of personal/diary blogs; 2.3.2 Relational work and interpersonal language use; 2.3.2 Expectations in personal/diary blogs; 2.3.3 Norms of interaction in personal/diary blogs; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3. Power in theory; 3.1 Introducing power or "another conceptual can of worms" (Thornborrow 2002, 5); 3.2 Differential access to the blogosphere: The digital divide; 3.3 Distribution of resources within blogs3.4 Conversational control and the exercise of power: Implications for personal/diary blogs Finding 1: Dominant participants produce more text and are responded to more often than non-dominant participants; Finding 2: Dominant individuals are instrumental in topic control; 3.5 Summary; Chapter 4. Disagreements and agreements in theory; 4.1 Defining disagreements and agreements (criticism and compliments); 4.2 Social factors associated with disagreements and agreements offline and online; 4.2.1 Face and preference; 4.2.2 Frames, culture and participant relationships4.2.3 Participant relationships (and hierarchies)4.2.4 Participation format; 4.3 Medium factors associated with disagreements and agreements online; 4.3.1 Anonymity and lack of social context cues (flaming); 4.3.2 Message format, persistence of transcript and quoting (responsiveness); 4.4 Disagreements and the exercise of power; 4.5 Summary; Chapter 5. The blog corpus and its analysis; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Data description; 5.2.1 Technical characteristics of the blogs; 5.2.2 A sociolinguistic characterisation of the eight personal/diary blogs; 5.3 Data selection; 5.4 Data analysis5.4.1 Computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA)5.4.2 The coding scheme; 5.4.3 The qualitative questionnaire; 5.5 Summary and outlook; Chapter 6. Power in practice I; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Revisiting the coding scheme: Entry types and discourse moves; 6.2.1 Entry types; 6.2.2 Discourse moves and their syntactic realisation; 6.3 Interactional patterns in the personal/diary blog corpus: An overview; 6.4 Reader responses to bloggers' posts; 6.5 Blogger responses to readers; 6.5.1 The bloggers' practice of commenting; 6.5.2 Reasons behind the bloggers' practice of commenting6.6 Reader response to readersLanguage and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs. The main focus is thereby placed on ties between these practices and power. The book demonstrates that the exercise of power in this mode can be studied via the analysis of conversational control (turn-taking, speakership and topic control), coupled with research on agreements and disagreements. In this vein, it reveals that control of the floor is strongly tied not solely to rates of participation, but more strikingly to the types ofPragmatics & beyond companion series.BlogsSocial aspectsCommunication and technologyLanguage and the InternetBlogsSocial aspects.Communication and technology.Language and the Internet.302.23ES 155rvkBolander Brook1800177MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967626503321Language and power in blogs4344805UNINA