Cohesive Profiling: Meaning And Interaction In Personal Weblogs (pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
by Christian R. Hoffmann /
2012 / English / PDF
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Cohesive Profiling
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.
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.