Christian R. Hoffmann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christian R. Hoffmann plays a role.

Journals

Titles

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media

Edited by Christian R. Hoffmann

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 199] 2010. vii, 276 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
While there is extensive research on the language of twitter, our knowledge of the pragmatics of particular twitter genres (and sub-genres) is still piecemeal. At the same time, in the past decades, political discourse analysis has widened our understanding of how language can be used… read more
Eisenlauer, Volker and Christian R. Hoffmann 2010 Once upon a blog ... Storytelling in weblogsNarrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.), pp. 79–108 | Article
Weblogs provide ample opportunities and new spaces for personal storytelling. Making use of ready-made templates, these platforms introduce non-expert users to online publishing and have spawn a variety of different weblog genres. Accordingly, narratives surface in different varieties in the… read more
Eisenlauer, Volker and Christian R. Hoffmann 2008 The metapragmatics of remediated text designInformation Design Journal 16:1, pp. 1–18 | Article
As discourse increasingly depends on digital technologies, this article proposes an integrative view of text and the digital medium. As will be shown, authors and users of hypertexts constantly reflect on the appropriateness of manifold structural bonds holding between text composition and text… read more