[Linganth] lit on online discourse

Oscar oscar.esc.or at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 15:13:05 UTC 2016


Hello Karen,

One example that comes to mind is Jane Hill's use of letters to the editor
and online board discussions regarding changing the name of the now
Piestewa Peak.

Oscar Escudero

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Karen Pennesi <pennesi at uwo.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Can anyone recommend literature analyzing discourse from public online
> texts such as comments on news articles, blogs, discussion forums etc.? I
> am trying to get a sense of whether there are criteria for selecting “good
> data”, how one justifies using this kind of data, how to deal with the
> problem of anonymity when attempting to describe the groups, “speech
> communities” etc. who produce the texts and the context for these
> discourses, how to compare this data to other kinds of spoken discourse,
> and how to represent this data on the page in publications.
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> Thanks,
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> Karen Pennesi, PhD.
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> Associate Professor
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> Department of Anthropology
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> University of Western Ontario
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> London, Ontario, Canada
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