Language and Power in Blogs

Name: Language and Power in Blogs | Interaction, disagreements and agreements
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Interaction, disagreements and agreements

Brook Bolander(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 18. Dezember 2013

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Language and Power in Blogs
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of tables and figures
Chapter 1. Introducing language use and power in personal/diary blogs
1.1 Overture
1.2 Laying out the dual approach to power
1.3 Research questions and scope
Interactional patterns, topic control and implications for power
Agreements and disagreements: Their role and ties to power
1.4 Structure
Chapter 2. Blogging as a social practice
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Introducing blogs
2.2.1 A working definition of blogs
2.2.2 Personal/diary blogs: An increasingly-popular sub-type
2.3 Frames in blog communities of practice
2.3.1 The participant framework of personal/diary blogs
2.3.2 Relational work and interpersonal language use
2.3.2 Expectations in personal/diary blogs
2.3.3 Norms of interaction in personal/diary blogs
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3. Power in theory
3.1 Introducing power or "another conceptual can of worms" (Thornborrow 2002, 5)
3.2 Differential access to the blogosphere: The digital divide
3.3 Distribution of resources within blogs
3.4 Conversational control and the exercise of power: Implications for personal/diary blogs
Finding 1: Dominant participants produce more text and are responded to more often than non-dominant participants
Finding 2: Dominant individuals are instrumental in topic control
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4. Disagreements and agreements in theory
4.1 Defining disagreements and agreements (criticism and compliments)
4.2 Social factors associated with disagreements and agreements offline and online
4.2.1 Face and preference
4.2.2 Frames, culture and participant relationships
4.2.3 Participant relationships (and hierarchies)
4.2.4 Participation format
4.3 Medium factors associated with disagreements and agreements online
4.3.1 Anonymity and lack of social context cues (flaming)
4.3.2 Message format, persistence of transcript and quoting (responsiveness)
4.4 Disagreements and the exercise of power
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5. The blog corpus and its analysis
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Data description
5.2.1 Technical characteristics of the blogs
5.2.2 A sociolinguistic characterisation of the eight personal/diary blogs
5.3 Data selection
5.4 Data analysis
5.4.1 Computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA)
5.4.2 The coding scheme
5.4.3 The qualitative questionnaire
5.5 Summary and outlook
Chapter 6. Power in practice I
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Revisiting the coding scheme: Entry types and discourse moves
6.2.1 Entry types
6.2.2 Discourse moves and their syntactic realisation
6.3 Interactional patterns in the personal/diary blog corpus: An overview
6.4 Reader responses to bloggers' posts
6.5 Blogger responses to readers
6.5.1 The bloggers' practice of commenting
6.5.2 Reasons behind the bloggers' practice of commenting
6.6 Reader response to readers
6.7 Linking forms of responsiveness with conversational roles
6.8 Summary
Chapter 7. Power in practice II
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Revisiting the coding scheme: Topics and topic control
7.3 Topics in personal/diary blog posts
7.4 Topics in posts and comments: Overlaps and variation
7.5 Bloggers' perceptions on topic maintenance
7.6 Summary
Chapter 8. Disagreements and agreements in practice I
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Revisiting the coding scheme: Syntax and relational work
8.2.1 Syntactic realisation of discourse moves
8.2.2 Relational work
8.3 Frequency of disagreements and agreements
8.3.1 Discourse moves in posts and comments: An overview
8.3.2 Disagreements and agreements in the comments sections of the eight personal/diary blogs
8.4 Relational work in disagreements and agreements
8.5 Bloggers' perceptions on disagreements and agreements
8.6 Summary
Chapter 9. Disagreements and agreements in practice II
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Revisiting the coding scheme: Entry types and discourse moves
9.3 Comparing disagreements and agreements as entry types: Rates of responsiveness and implications for the exercise of power
9.3.1 Reader responses to bloggers' posts
9.3.2 Bloggers' responses to readers' comments
9.3.3 Readers' responses to readers' comments
9.3.4 "Agreement", "compliment other", "disagreement", "criticism other" and "disagreement and agreement" in the overall comments section and in specific entry types: An overview
9.4 The linguistic construction of responsiveness in disagreements and agreements: Revisiting the blogger as favourite recipient
9.4.1 Types of linguistic responsiveness in disagreements and agreements
9.4.2 Responsiveness and recipiency
9.5 Summary
Chapter 10. Concluding remarks
10.1 Revisiting the aims and research questions
10.2 Limitations
10.3 Central findings and research outlook
References
Appendix I. Discourse moves with definitions, examples and explanations (presented in groups)
Appendix II. Relational work with definitions, examples and explanations (presented in alphabetical order)
Appendix III. The qualitative questionnaire
Author index
Subject index

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