LEADER 05407nam 22006731 450 001 9910790757403321 005 20230126203711.0 010 $a90-272-7098-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001166685 035 $a(EBL)1574381 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11593714 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086578 035 $a(PQKB)11359218 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1574381 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1574381 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10813549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL548055 035 $a(OCoLC)864899697 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001166685 100 $a20131212h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLanguage and power in blogs $einteraction, disagreements and agreements /$fBrook Bolander 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (291 p.) 225 0$aPragmatics & beyond new series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-5642-X 311 $a1-306-16804-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLanguage 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 blogs 327 $a2.2.2 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 blogs 327 $a3.4 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 relationships 327 $a4.2.3 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 analysis 327 $a5.4.1 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 commenting 327 $a6.6 Reader response to readers 330 $aLanguage and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs. The main focus is thereby placed on ties between these practices and power. The book demonstrates that the exercise of power in this mode can be studied via the analysis of conversational control (turn-taking, speakership and topic control), coupled with research on agreements and disagreements. In this vein, it reveals that control of the floor is strongly tied not solely to rates of participation, but more strikingly to the types of 410 0$aPragmatics & beyond companion series. 606 $aBlogs$xSocial aspects 606 $aCommunication and technology 606 $aLanguage and the Internet 615 0$aBlogs$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCommunication and technology. 615 0$aLanguage and the Internet. 676 $a302.23 700 $aBolander$b Brook$01582073 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790757403321 996 $aLanguage and power in blogs$93864063 997 $aUNINA