[Corpora-List] About 'user warrant'

[santinim at inwind.it]

Dear List Members,

I am looking for studies, experiments or any source of information about the principle of 'user warrant' applied to language or language-related issues.

I have the following three pieces of information about this principle:

1) It is mentioned in the standard ANSI/NISO  Z39.19-2005 (NISO, 2005);

2) It is included in the Guide to the Development and Maintenance of Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada;

3)It is interpreted by Mark Rosso in the following way: "if the majority of the participants agree that a web page is of a particular genre, then it is”. (Rosso, 2005: 104)".

I would like to know more about the validity and applicability of this principle. Any reading suggestion is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Marina Santini


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