Communication Forms and Communicative Practices: New Perspectives on Communication Forms, Affordances and What Users Make of Them

Alexander Brock; Peter Schildhauer

ISBN 10: 3631667523 / ISBN 13: 9783631667521

Verlag: Peter Lang AG, 2017

Beschreibung

This volume reflects the discussion that emerged around the concepts "communication form", "communicative practice", "medium" and "genre". It combines theoretical contributions with empirical studies on public signage in cities, video games, self-tracking, the "National Geographic Magazine", and the personal blog. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers b12721

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Titel: Communication Forms and Communicative ...

Verlag: Peter Lang AG

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe:

This volume reflects the discussion that emerged around the controversial concepts «communication form», «communicative practice», «medium» and «genre». It provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current state-of-affairs of these concepts, and combines theoretical contributions from various perspectives with thorough empirical studies of current communication forms, media, and practices. The contributions deal with fields ranging from public signage in cities, video games and self-tracking to historical accounts of changing communicative potentials and practices concerning the «National Geographic Magazine» and the personal blog. Due to its interdisciplinary character, the volume points out various new directions for future research.

Biografía del autor:

Alexander Brock is a Professor for Linguistics at the English Department of Halle University. His research interests include text linguistics, pragmatics, humour studies and media linguistics. Peter Schildhauer gained his PhD with a study on the history of personal blogs and works as a Lecturer in English Linguistics/TEFL at Bielefeld University.