Try to prove me wrong: Dialogicity and audience involvement in economics blogs. (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bondi, Marina
• Is Part Of: Discourse, context & media. Volume 24(2018)
• Page Start: 33
• Page End: 42
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: Discourse analysis -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Periodicals; Mass media and language -- Periodicals; Communication -- Periodicals; Communication; Digital media; Discourse analysis; Mass media and language; Periodicals; 401.4105
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.04.011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2211-6958

Abstract

Highlights: Blog posts are characterized by forms of self-mention and reader's engagement. The prominence of organizational units responds to a need for greater explicitness. Evaluation and hedges suggest a need to negotiate meanings with an undefined audience. Eliciting response is just as important as promoting the writer's position and ideas. Comments create complex polylogues interweaving parallel conversations and discourses.