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.

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs. The main focus is thereby placed on ties between these practices and power. The book demonstrates that the exercise of power in this mode can be studied via the analysis of conversational control (turn-taking, speakership and topic control), coupled with research on agreements and disagreements. In this vein, it reveals that control of the floor is strongly tied not solely to rates of participation, but more strikingly to the types of contributions interlocutors make. With its detailed linguistic analyses and comprehensive theoretical and methodological treatment of language use and power, the book is interesting for researchers and students working within the domains of pragmatics, discourse analysis, text linguistics and corpus linguistics, in both offline and online settings.

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