<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Hi Karen,</div><div>You might check out the edited volume by Thurlow and Mroczek (2011), Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media, which includes a piece by Graham Jones and Bambi Schieffelin. Norma Mendoza-Denton relies significantly on such data in her 2011 JLA piece, “The Semiotic Hitchhiker’s Guide to Creaky Voice.” I believe Debra Spitulnik Vidali also has some work in this vein, and I remember Gregory Urban presenting on some digital data a few years back which might be published now. And this is not ling anth, but there is a 2002 Annual Review piece, “The Anthropology of Online Communities,” by Wilson and Peterson. </div><div><br></div><div>My own impression/ opinion is that this sort of analysis is strongest (from a linguistic anthropological perspective) when it is either accompanied by ethnographic work with some of the authors/users and/or is a supplement to previous ethnographic research with a particular community.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Steve Black</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div id="MAC_OUTLOOK_SIGNATURE"><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Steven P. 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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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Karen Pennesi, PhD.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Associate Professor<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Department of Anthropology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">University of Western Ontario<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">London, Ontario, Canada<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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