Metadiscourse in Digital Communication

In this book, a solid and emerging group of international researchers contributes to the theory of metadiscourse and to our understanding of the role metadiscourse and related ‘meta’ phenomena may play in digital forms of communication. Providing examples of new research methods and approaches, the authors investigate progressively hybridized academic and non-academic genres that have migrated from analogue to digital format. The book offers valuable insights on how digital communication has changed today’s communication environments and provides examples of research methods needed to capture that change. This volume will be appreciated by scholars and graduate students interested in linguistics, corpus linguistics and metadiscourse.

Chapter 1 Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: A short introduction.- Chapter 2 “Gonna write about it on my blog too” Metadiscourse in research blog discussions.- Chapter 3 Reflections on reflexivity in digital communication: Toward a third wave of metadiscourse studies.- Chapter 4 Metadiscourse in Academic Research Articles vs. Blogs: Paul Krugman as a Case Study.- Chapter 5 This Has Changed: ‘Out-of-the-Box’ metadiscourse in Scientific Graphical Abstracts.- Chapter 6 Lemons and watermelons: Visual advertising and conceptual blending.- Chapter 7 Metadiscourse In Social Media: A Reflexive Framework.