RSSBook: Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication
Feb 02
Title: Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication
Series Title: Linguistic Insights – Volume 140
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431013
Editor: Sandra Campagna
Editor: Giuliana Garzone
Editor: Cornelia Ilie
Editor: Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034310130 Pages: 337 Price: U.S. $ 103.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034310130 Pages: 337 Price: U.K. £ 64.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034310130 Pages: 337 Price: Europe EURO 80.00
Abstract:
This volume explores genres in Web-mediated communication in a
discourse-analytical perspective, focusing in particular on genre change and
evolution under the pressure of technological renewal, the availability of new
affordances, and the consequent emergence of new generic conventions that
challenge traditional genre theory. The chapters are organised in an ideal
progression from websites and more “traditional” Web applications to Web 2.0
communicative platforms, characterised as they are by user participation and
user-generated content, focusing in the final section on blogging and
microblogging as the applications that are most representative of the
properties of the new platforms. In all chapters the starting point is an
awareness of the need to renew or adapt existing analytical tools to make them
applicable to the new objects of investigation.
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