Variations of polyphony in blogs
The case of the Slow Art Day blog
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.
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
-
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