Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, disagreements and agreements (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: Dec 18, 2013
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789027256423
Description: And outlook -- Power in practice I : interactional patterns -- Introduction -- Revisiting the coding scheme : entry types and discourse moves -- Entry types -- Discourse moves and their syntactic realisation -- Interactional patterns in the personal/diary blog corpus : an overview -- Reader responses to bloggers' posts -- Blogger responses to readers -- The bloggers' practice of commenting -- Reasons behind the bloggers' practice of commenting -- Reader response to readers -- Linking forms of responsiveness with conversational roles -- Summary -- Power in practice II : topic control -- Introduction -- Revisiting the coding scheme : topics and topic control -- Topics in personal/diary blog posts -- Topics in posts and comments : overlaps and variation -- Bloggers' perceptions on topic maintenance -- Summary -- Disagreements and agreements in practice I : characterising the moves -- Introduction -- Revisiting the coding scheme : syntax and relational work --

Syntactic realisation of discourse moves -- Relational work -- Frequency of disagreements and agreements -- Discourse moves in posts and comments : an overview -- Disagreements and agreements in the comments sections of the eight personal/diary blogs -- Relational work in disagreements and agreements -- Bloggers' perceptions on disagreements and agreements -- Summary -- Disagreements and agreements in practice II : patterns of interaction, responsiveness and links to power -- Introduction -- Revisiting the coding scheme : entry types and discourse moves -- Comparing disagreements and agreements as entry types : rates of responsiveness and implications for the exercise of power -- Reader responses to bloggers' posts -- Bloggers' responses to readers' comments -- Readers' responses to readers' comments -- "Agreement", "compliment other", "disagreement", "criticism other" and "disagreement and agreement" in the overall comments section and in specific entry types : an overview --

The linguistic construction of responsiveness in disagreements and agreements : revisiting the blogger as favourite recipient -- Types of linguistic responsiveness in disagreements and agreements -- Responsiveness and recipiency -- Summary -- Concluding remarks -- Revisiting the aims and research questions -- Limitations -- Central findings and research outlook -- References -- Appendix I : discourse moves with definitions, examples and explanations (presented in groups) -- Appendix II : relational work with definitions, examples and explanations (presented in alphabetical order) -- Appendix III : the qualitative questionnaire -- Author index -- Subject index.