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Language and Dialogue
Vol. 13:1 (2023) ► pp.103–122

Variations of polyphony in blogs

The case of the Slow Art Day blog

| University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
| University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

This paper looks at dialogicity in the Slow Art Day blog and focuses on the way the representation of participants encodes the complexity of the communicative action through a polyphony of textual voices. By focusing on posts from the pandemic years (2020 and 2021), and contrasting them with the previous period, we carry out a collocation analysis and a study of semantic preferences (Sinclair 2004) to explore how writers present themselves and how they interact with the reader and other textual voices in a context of cultural intermediation. By looking at forms of address and of self-mention, we trace how this blog enacts different forms of dialogic action with its readers and stakeholders in the extended situational context.

Keywords: dialogicity, polyphony, corpus linguistics, appraisal, blogs, museums
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Blogs and dialogicity
  • 2.Background: Slow Art Day
  • 3.Materials and methods
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Keyword List
    • 4.2Introducing themselves to visitors: The use of we
    • 4.3Addressing readers as visitors: The use of you
    • 4.4Reporting other voices
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 7 March 2023
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