Laurie McNeill
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laurie McNeill plays a role.
Article
2009 Brave new genre, or generic colonialism? Debates over ancestry in Internet diaries Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 143–162 | Article
This chapter analyses online users’ debates about the generic classification and ancestry of “blogs” and “Internet diaries,” looking in particular at users’ defensive definitions and meta-generic commentary that would distinguish the blog from the diary. I argue that these directives draw on… read more