Dialogicity in written specialised genres / edited by Luz Gil-Salom, Carmen Soler-Monreal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gil Salom, Luz, editor.

Soler-Monreal, Carmen, editor.

Series:

Dialogue studies ; Volume 23.

Dialogue Studies, 1875-1792 ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Literary form.

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Spanish language--Discourse analysis.

Spanish language.

Italian language--Discourse analysis.

Italian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Success in written academic communication depends on the presence of elements related to author-reader interactions which supplement propositional information in the text, help readers reach the intended interpretation and shape the author's identity. But is this claim equally valid for online genres? This new environment demands an adaptation of the role of authors, texts, and readers concerning (a) a re-structuring of texts to fit the margins of the screen; (b) a new type of non-linear structure, with no specific reading sequence, which often blurs authorial intention; (c) a new type of reader that does not read in a linear way, but often engages in multi-tasking, is used to processing small chunks of text and often browses without a predictable reading sequence; and (d) a new context of text processing. This chapter addresses these qualities of electronic genres and their implications. For that purpose, 4 different academic texts will be analysed: (1) an academic printed journal uploaded online without variations, Computers in Human Behavior; (2) an online journal, First Monday; (3) several entries of a specialised native discourse on the Internet: Second Life New World Notes; and (4) a popular native online discourse, the technology blog by The Guardian.

Contents:

Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

Foreword

Dialogue, community and persuasion in research writing

1. Introduction

2. Academic discourse and dialogue

3. Stance and engagement

4. Disciplinary dialogues: Interactions in research papers

5. Dialogue and the writer: Taking a stance

6. Dialogue and the reader: Engaging with the discipline

7. Conclusions

References

Part I. Authorial stance and the construction of readership

Chapter 1. Academic voices and claims: Reviewing practices in research writing

2. Corpus and method

3. Results of analysis

3.1 Types of citations

3.2 Reporting verbs

3.2.1 Shielding cited author acts from FTAs

3.2.2 Shielding writer acts from FTAs

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Appendix

Chapter 2. The role of authorial voice in professional and non-professional reviews of films

2. The data

3. Film reviews as a dialogic genre

4. The Engagement system

4.1 Introduction to the Appraisal system

4.2 Description of Engagement

4.2.1 Expansion

4.2.2 Contraction

4.3 Analysis of unclear cases

4.3.1 Doubtful cases between two subcategories of Engagement

4.3.2 Doubtful cases between Engagement and other Appraisal categories

5. A comparative analysis of the Engagement options in the different types of film reviews

5.1 Preliminary notes on the analysis of spans

5.2 Overall findings

5.3 The English and Spanish reviews compared

5.4 The professional and consumer-generated reviews compared

5.5 A comparison of all the subtypes

6. Conclusions and suggestions for further research

Chapter 3. Multivoiced interaction in English and Italian academic review discourse

1. Introduction.

2. Materials and methods

3. Voices in historical book review articles: cross-cultural comparison

3.1 The voice of the reviewer across cultures: first person subject pronoun I and io

3.2 First person plural subject pronoun - 'authorial' we and noi across cultures

3.3 Reader-inclusive we and noi

3.4 Reviewer's dialogue with textual voices across cultures

4. Conclusions

Chapter 4. From 'Readers may be left wondering' to 'I'm genuinely puzzled'

2. Corpus and methodology

3. Results and discussion

3.1 Attribution markers

3.1.1 Personal attribution markers

3.1.2 Impersonal attribution markers

3.1.3 Third person attribution markers

3.2 Engagement markers

3.2.1 Inclusive pronoun we

3.2.2 Address form you

3.2.3 Imperatives

3.2.4 Questions

3.2.5 Asides

4. Concluding remarks

Part II. Dynamic dialogic interactions

Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality

2. The traveller forum, a 2.0 web genre

2.1 E-discourse

2.2 Tourism and the traveller forum

3. Interpersonality and voice in writers and readers

3.1 Interpersonality or interactional communication

3.2 Voice, stance and engagement

4. Data sources and methodology

5. Analysis

5.1 Quantitative analysis

5.2 Qualitative analysis

6. Discussion and conclusion

Chapter 6. A corpus-based study of the discursive creation of a child consumer identity

1.1 Critical discourse analysis and identity construction

2. Methodology

2.1 About the corpus: Tourist information websites vs. tourist information forums

2.2 Research framework: Corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis

3. Analysis and discussion

3.1 Uses of 'kids' in subject position.

3.2 Uses of 'kids' in predicate position

4. Results and conclusion

Chapter 7. Interactions with readers through online specialised genres Specificity or adaptability?

2. Three types of academic texts on the Internet

3. On the offline/online quality of academic texts

4. Interpersonality markers of academic texts on the Net

4.1 Common-ground markers

4.2 Qualification "on the fly"

4.3 Hedges

4.4 Boosters

4.5 Attitude markers

4.6 Author's presence vs. reader engagement

5. Concluding remarks

Conclusion: The broadening horizon of LSP/EAP

1. Language

2. Genre colony

3. Interest

4. Medium

5. Genre

6. Domain and professionalism

7. Conclusion

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269829

9027269823

OCLC:

881607415