Communication forms and communicative practices : new perspectives on communication forms, affordances and what users can make of them /

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 per...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brock, Alexander (Editor), Schildhauer, Peter (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, [2017]
Series:Hallesche Sprach- und Textforschung ; v. 15.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical and methological considerations
  • Communication form: a concept revisited / Alexander Brock & Peter Schildhauer
  • Media linguistics and media studies - communication forms and their infrastructures / Matthias Meiler
  • From the space/place-issue to mediatization: on the potential of the concept of communication forms / Christine Domke
  • Communication forms and communicative practices
  • "pentakill inc" - a case study of shortening processes in ludolects / Frederic Zähres
  • "Looks like you wiped us" - communication in MMORPGs: a hybrid with new challenges and motivations / Birgit Swoboda
  • "Der gläserne Mensch" 2.0? Self-tracking and the quantified self movement as new communicative practices / Ina Batzke
  • Communication forms and their use from a diachronic perspective
  • Changing potentials and their use: the case of blogs / Peter Schildhauer
  • Changing potentials and their use: the case of popular science journalism / Jana Pflaeging.