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Cohesive profiling : meaning and interaction in personal weblogs /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Christian R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 219.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cohesive Profiling; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of figures; List of tables; List of AWC blogs; Typographic conventions; Chapter 1. The objective; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Blogs between monologue and dialogue; 1.3 Text and discourse; 1.4 Discourse analysis: Two vantage points; 1.5 Cohesion and coherence; 1.6 Aims and outline of the study; Chapter 2. The object; 2.1 Defining the blog; 2.2 The composition of blogs; 2.2.1 The upper panel; 2.2.2 The side panels; 2.2.3 The lower panel; 2.2.4 The entries; 2.2.5 The comments.
  • Chapter 3. The genre3.1 Understanding text genre; 3.2 The historic naturalization of the blogosphere; 3.3 Diary, journal or blog? Toward generic attribution; 3.4 The personal blog as a super-genre; Chapter 4. The format; 4.1 Across discourse: Hyperwriting and hyperreading; 4.2 Across media: Analogue and digital hypertext; 4.3 Across the mind: Hypertext cognition; 4.4 Across space: Text, knowledge, and participation; Chapter 5. The texture; 5.1 A framework for verbal cohesion in blogs; 5.2 The scope of cohesive relations; 5.3 Grammatical cohesion; 5.3.1 Reference.
  • 5.3.2 Substitution and ellipsis5.3.3 Conjunction; 5.4 Lexical cohesion; 5.4.1 Repetition (total and partial recurrence); 5.4.2 Equivalence (synonymy, syntactical parallelism, paraphrase); 5.4.3 Superordination (hyperonymy, hyponymy, holonymy, meronymy); 5.4.4 Co-hyponymy; 5.4.5 Antonymy (contrary, complementary, converse and directional antonymy); 5.4.6 Collocation; Chapter 6. The corpus; 6.1 The Augsburg Blog Corpus (AWC); 6.2 Data segmentation; 6.3 Manual analysis and evaluation of the data; 6.4 Preliminary methodological reflections; Chapter 7. The analysis I (grammatical cohesion).
  • 7.1 Reference in blog entries7.2 Reference in blog comments; 7.3 Substitution in blog entries and comments; 7.4 Conjunction in blog entries and comments; 7.5 Ellipsis in blog entries and comments; 7.6 Some preliminary results; Chapter 8. The analysis II (lexical cohesion); 8.1 Lexical cohesion in blog entries; 8.2 Lexical cohesion in blog comments; 8.3 Some preliminary results; Chapter 9. The interaction: Knowledge and cohesion; 9.1 From collocation to cognition; 9.2 From episodic memory to serial knowledge; 9.3 Conversational interaction in personal blogs; Chapter 10. The results.
  • 10.1 Cohesive interaction revisited10.2 Monologue or dialogue?
  • Positioning blogs; 10.3 Communicative conditions in personal blogs; 10.4 Limitations of the study and future research; 10.5 Concluding remarks; References; Webliography; Appendix; Person index; Subject index.