基本説明
This book 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 analylsis 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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. List of figures; 3. List of tables; 4. List of AWC blogs; 5. Typographic conventions; 6. 1. The objective; 7. 2. The object; 8. 3. The genre; 9. 4. The format; 10. 5. The texture; 11. 6. The corpus; 12. 7. The analysis I (grammatical cohesion); 13. 8. The analysis II (lexical cohesion); 14. 9. The interaction: Knowledge and cohesion; 15. 10. The results; 16. References; 17. Webliography; 18. Appendix. Digital questionnaire: (distributed through surveymonkey.com); 19. Person index; 20. Subject index
