Genres in the Internet
Issues in the theory of genre
Editors
This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet communication: an arena challenging to traditional ideas of genre which assume a conventional stability at odds with the unceasing innovations of online discourse. Drawing on and developing new ideas of genre, the research reported in this volume shows, on the contrary, that genre study is a powerful means of testing commonplaces about the Internet world and, in turn, that the Internet is a fertile field for theorising genre.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] 2009. ix, 294 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. i–x
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Genres in the Internet: Innovation, evolution, and genre theoryJanet Giltrow and Dieter Stein | pp. 1–26
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Re-fusing form in genre studyAmy J. Devitt | pp. 27–48
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Lies at Wal-Mart: Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blogCornelius Puschmann | pp. 49–84
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Situating the public social actions of blog postsKathryn Grafton | pp. 85–112
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“Working consensus” and the rhetorical situation: The homeless blog’s negotiation of public meta-genreElizabeth G. Maurer | pp. 113–142
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Brave new genre, or generic colonialism? Debates over ancestry in Internet diariesLaurie McNeill | pp. 143–162
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Online, multimedia case studies for professional education: Revisioning concepts of genre recognitionDavid Russell and David Fisher | pp. 163–192
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Nation, book, medium: New technologies and their genresMiranda Burgess | pp. 193–220
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Critical genres: Generic changes of literary criticism in computer-mediated communicationSebastian Domsch | pp. 221–238
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A model for describing ‘new’ and ‘old’ properties of CMC genres: The case of digital folkloreTheresa Heyd | pp. 239–262
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Questions for genre theory from the blogosphereCarolyn R. Miller and Dawn Shepherd | pp. 263–290
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Index | pp. 291–294
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Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General