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Publication details [#54843]

Lehti, Lotta. 2011. Blogging politics in various ways: A typology of French politicians’ blogs. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (6) : 1610–1627.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | genre | internet | political language | typology

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores innovative ways of genre-mixing in a new genre, the politician's blog. Drawing on prototype theory, the paper proposes a division of French politicians’ blogs into five different sub-genres: diary, scrapbook, notice-board, essay and polemic.