Success in written academic communication depends on the presence of elements
related to author-reader interactions which supplement propositional
information in the text, help readers reach the intended interpretation and
shape the author’s identity. But is this claim equally valid for online genres?
This new environment demands an adaptation of the role of authors, texts, and
readers concerning (a) a re-structuring of texts to fit the margins of the screen;
(b) a new type of non-linear structure, with no specific reading sequence, which
often blurs authorial intention; (c) a new type of reader that does not read in
a linear way, but often engages in multi-tasking, is used to processing small
chunks of text and often browses without a predictable reading sequence; and
(d) a new context of text processing. This chapter addresses these qualities of
electronic genres and their implications. For that purpose, 4 different academic
texts will be analysed: (1) an academic printed journal uploaded online without
variations, Computers in Human Behavior; (2) an online journal, First Monday;
(3) several entries of a specialised native discourse on the Internet: Second Life
New World Notes; and (4) a popular native online discourse, the technology blog
by The Guardian.
2004 “Discovering the iceberg of knowledge work: A weblog case”. Paper presented at the
Fifth European Conference on Organisational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities
(OKLC 2004), Innsbruck.
Ewins, Rory
2005 “Who are you? Weblogs and academic identity”. E-Learning 2 (4): 368–377.
Gil-Salom, Luz, and Soler-Monreal, Carmen
2009 “Interacting with the reader: Politeness strategies in engineering research article discussions”. International Journal of English Studies, Special Issue, 175–189.
Gil-Salom, Luz, and Soler-Monreal, Carmen
2011 “Introduction to the panel Interpersonality in Written Specialised Genres”. 12th International Pragmatics Conference. Manchester, U.K. July.
Hyland, Ken
2008a “Persuasion, interaction and the construction of knowledge: Representing self and others in research writing”. International Journal of English Studies 8 (2): 1–23.
2002 “Blogging thoughts: Personal publication as an online research tool”. In Researching ICTs in Context, Andrew Morrison (ed), 249–279. Oslo: Intermedia.
Sperber, Dan, and Wilson, Deirdre
1995Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell.
Weigand, Edda
2009Language as Dialogue. Sebastian Feller (ed). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2023. Recursos lingüístico-discursivos de la voz del autor en informes universitarios: aprendizaje y evaluación en distintas disciplinas académicas. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 93 ► pp. 85 ff.
2019. “Tetanus? Who Cares About Tetanus?”: Audience Engagement and Co-participation in Medical Blogs. In Specialized Discourses and Their Readerships [The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, ], ► pp. 101 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 19 april 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.