Overview

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.

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Author:   Janet Giltrow (University of British Columbia) ,  Dieter Stein (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   188
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789027254337

ISBN 10:   9027254338
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   28 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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