Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality
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Francisca Suau-Jiménez
Abstract
This study explores web-based discourse genres and applies a dialogic framework to the study of interpersonality in traveller forums. This genre belongs to the domain of travel and tourism, where the interaction of writers-readers leads towards its ultimate purpose: to persuade others through positive or negative opinions. The theory of Dialogic Action Games (Weigand 2008, 2009, 2010) aids to understand its rationale since these dialogic interactions can be seen as an application of Weigand’s principles (2010), in this case materialized through interpersonal markers (Vande Kopple 1985; Crismore et al. 1993). A corpus of traveller forums (180 threads of conversation) from Trip Advisor was compiled and analyzed. The quantitative and qualitative analyses draw on the notion of voice (White 2003; Hyland 2008), divided into writer’s stance and reader’s engagement. This research shows that they are encoded in a number of interpersonal markers which participate in the genre’s rhetorical characterization.
Abstract
This study explores web-based discourse genres and applies a dialogic framework to the study of interpersonality in traveller forums. This genre belongs to the domain of travel and tourism, where the interaction of writers-readers leads towards its ultimate purpose: to persuade others through positive or negative opinions. The theory of Dialogic Action Games (Weigand 2008, 2009, 2010) aids to understand its rationale since these dialogic interactions can be seen as an application of Weigand’s principles (2010), in this case materialized through interpersonal markers (Vande Kopple 1985; Crismore et al. 1993). A corpus of traveller forums (180 threads of conversation) from Trip Advisor was compiled and analyzed. The quantitative and qualitative analyses draw on the notion of voice (White 2003; Hyland 2008), divided into writer’s stance and reader’s engagement. This research shows that they are encoded in a number of interpersonal markers which participate in the genre’s rhetorical characterization.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- Foreword ix
- Introductory chapter 1
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PART 1. Authorial stance and the construction of readership
- Chapter 1. Academic voices and claims 23
- Chapter 2. The role of authorial voice in professional and non-professional reviews of films 55
- Chapter 3. Multivoiced interaction in English and Italian academic review discourse 87
- Chapter 4. From ‘Readers may be left wondering’ to I’m genuinely puzzled’ 113
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PART 2. Dynamic dialogic interactions
- Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality 137
- Chapter 6. A corpus-based study of the discursive creation of a child consumer identity in official tourist information websites vs. opinion forums 165
- Chapter 7. Interactions with readers through online specialised genres 189
- Conclusion 209
- Author index 221
- Subject index 225
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- Foreword ix
- Introductory chapter 1
-
PART 1. Authorial stance and the construction of readership
- Chapter 1. Academic voices and claims 23
- Chapter 2. The role of authorial voice in professional and non-professional reviews of films 55
- Chapter 3. Multivoiced interaction in English and Italian academic review discourse 87
- Chapter 4. From ‘Readers may be left wondering’ to I’m genuinely puzzled’ 113
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PART 2. Dynamic dialogic interactions
- Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality 137
- Chapter 6. A corpus-based study of the discursive creation of a child consumer identity in official tourist information websites vs. opinion forums 165
- Chapter 7. Interactions with readers through online specialised genres 189
- Conclusion 209
- Author index 221
- Subject index 225
