Date: 13-Nov-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Genres in the Internet: Giltrow, Stein (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Genres in the Internet
Subtitle: Issues in the theory of genre
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 188
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Janet Giltrow
Editor: Dieter Stein
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289384 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289384 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027254337 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027254337 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Abstract:
This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet communication: an arena challenging to traditional ideas of genre which assume a conventional stability at odds with the unceasing innovations of online discourse. Drawing on and developing new ideas of genre, the research reported in this volume shows, on the contrary, that genre study is a powerful means of testing commonplaces about the Internet world and, in turn, that the Internet is a fertile field for theorising genre.