Genres in the internet : issues in the theory of genre

Author(s)

• Giltrow, Janet
• Stein, Dieter

Bibliographic Information

Genres in the internet : issues in the theory of genre

edited by Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein

（Pragmatics & beyond : new series, v. 188）

John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009

• : hb

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet communication: an arena challenging to traditional ideas of genre which assume a conventional stability at odds with the unceasing innovations of online discourse. Drawing on and developing new ideas of genre, the research reported in this volume shows, on the contrary, that genre study is a powerful means of testing commonplaces about the Internet world and, in turn, that the Internet is a fertile field for theorising genre.

Table of Contents

• 1. Preface
• 2. Genres in the Internet: Innovation, evolution, and genre theory (by Giltrow, Janet)
• 3. Re-fusing form in genre study (by Devitt, Amy J.)
• 4. Lies at Wal-Mart: Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blog (by Puschmann, Cornelius)
• 5. Situating the public social actions of blog posts (by Grafton, Kathryn)
• 6. "Working consensus" and the rhetorical situation: The homeless blog's negotiation of public meta-genre (by Maurer, Elizabeth G.)
• 7. Brave new genre, or generic colonialism?: Debates over ancestry in Internet diaries (by McNeill, Laurie)
• 8. Online, multimedia case studies for professional education: Revisioning concepts of genre recognition (by Russell, David)
• 9. Nation, book, medium: New technologies and their genres (by Burgess, Miranda)
• 10. Critical genres: Generic changes of literary criticism in computer-mediated communication (by Domsch, Sebastian)
• 11. A model for describing 'new' and 'old' properties of CMC genres: The case of digital folklore (by Heyd, Theresa)
• 12. Questions for genre theory from the blogosphere (by Miller, Carolyn R.)
• 13. Index

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Details

• NCID: BB00298005
• ISBN:
  • 9789027254337
• LCCN: 2009025635
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 294 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN171.O55
  • DC22 : 808/.002854678
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Online authorship
  • LCSH : Literary form
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10353962