| Description |
1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 199 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. v. 199
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| Contents |
Introduction : narrative revisited : telling a story in the age of new media / Christian Hoffmann -- Contextual constraints in cmc narrative / Carla Bazzanella -- The role of electronics in the perception of everyday narratives / Axel Hübler -- "Audacious, brilliant!! what a strike!" : live text commentaries on the internet as real-time narratives / Andreas H. Jucker -- Once upon a blog : storytelling in weblogs / Volker Eisenlauer & Christian Hoffmann -- "Need to put this out there (my story)" : narratives in message boards / Jenny Arendholz -- Narrative sequences in political discourse : forms and functions in speeches and hypertext frameworks / Christoph Schubert -- Small stories in political discourse : the public self goes private / Anita Fetzer -- Unpacking narrative in a hypermedia "artedventure" for children / Maree Stenglin & Emilia Djonov -- Chain and choice in filmic narrative : an analysis of multimodal narrative construction in The fountain / Chiaoi Tseng & John A. Bateman -- Film discourse cohesion / Richard W. Janney |
| Summary |
The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media. Its ten contributions firstly center on the various forms and functions narratives assume in computer-mediated environments, e.g. websites, weblogs, message boards, etc. In this light, past and present approaches to the description of narratives are presented and reevaluated based on their ability to capture the conceptual and methodological exigencies of new media. Secondly, the volume sheds new light upon the multimodal composition of new media narratives which typically feature multiple co-occurring semiotic modes such as spee |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Congresses
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Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Congresses
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Digital media -- Influence -- Congresses
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoffmann, Christian R.
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Bublitz, Wolfram.
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| LC no. |
2010030449 |
| ISBN |
9789027287700 |
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9027287708 |
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1282904582 |
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9781282904583 |
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9786612904585 |
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6612904585 |
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