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A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia


A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia

More than an Encyclopaedia?

von: Susanne Kopf

48,14 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 05.10.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9783031110245
Sprache: englisch

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This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse and communication studies, redressing the gap in research on Wikipedia in these fields and encouraging scholars to explore Wikipedia further as a platform and a medium. Drawing on Herring's situational and medium factors, as well as related developments in (critical) discourse studies, the author studies the online encyclopaedia both theoretically and empirically, examining its origins, production and consumption before turning to a discussion of its societal significance and function(s). This book will be of interest to Wikipedia scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as those with a broader interest in linguistics, discourse studies and the digital humanities. 
Chapter 1. Introduction – Contextualisation Matters.- Chapter 2. Wikipedia’s modus operandi and architecture.- Chapter 3. Wikipedia Talk Page Discourse I.- Chapter 4. Wikipedia Talk Page Discourse II.- Chapter 5. Wikipedia’s position and function in society.- Chapter 6. Summary and outlook.
<p><b>Susanne Kopf</b> is an Assistant Professor of English Business Communication at &nbsp;WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria. Her research interests include corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies, Wikipedia and social media studies with a focus on exploring online communities’ debates and attitudes concerning well-known organizations and events.<br></p>

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<p>This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse and communication studies, redressing the gap in research on Wikipedia in these fields and encouraging scholars to explore Wikipedia further as a platform and a medium. Drawing on Herring's situational and medium factors, as well as related developments in (critical) discourse studies, the author studies the online encyclopaedia both theoretically and empirically, examining its origins, production and consumption before turning to a discussion of its societal significance and function(s). This book will be of interest to Wikipedia scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as those with a broader interest in linguistics, discourse studies and the digital humanities.&nbsp;</p>

<p><b>Susanne Kopf</b> is an Assistant Professor of English Business Communication at &nbsp;WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria. Her research interests include corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies, Wikipedia and social media studies with a focus on exploring online communities’ debates and attitudes concerning well-known organizations and events.</p><p> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><br>
Studies the world's largest online enyclopaedia both theoretically and empirically Explores Wikipedia’s origin, evolution and notable site structure Illustrates the linguistic and discursive differences between Wikipedia's 'front stage' and 'back stage'

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