A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia
More than an Encyclopaedia?
Published on 6. October 2022
Book
Hardback
XI, 168 pages
978-3-031-11023-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse and communication studies, redressing the gap in research on Wikipedia in these fields and encouraging scholars to explore Wikipedia further as a platform and a medium. Drawing on Herring's situational and medium factors, as well as related developments in (critical) discourse studies, the author studies the online encyclopaedia both theoretically and empirically, examining its origins, production and consumption before turning to a discussion of its societal significance and function(s). This book will be of interest to Wikipedia scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as those with a broader interest in linguistics, discourse studies and the digital humanities.
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Edition
1st ed. 2022
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen, 7 farbige Abbildungen
XI, 168 p. 9 illus., 7 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
353 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-11023-8 (9783031110238)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-11024-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
10/2022
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€48.14
Available for download
Person
Susanne Kopf
is an Assistant Professor of English Business Communication at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria. Her research interests include corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies, Wikipedia and social media studies with a focus on exploring online communities' debates and attitudes concerning well-known organizations and events.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction - Contextualisation Matters.- Chapter 2. Wikipedia's modus operandi and architecture.- Chapter 3. Wikipedia Talk Page Discourse I.- Chapter 4. Wikipedia Talk Page Discourse II.- Chapter 5. Wikipedia's position and function in society.- Chapter 6. Summary and outlook.