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Article published In: Language and Dialogue
Vol. 13:1 (2023) ► pp.103–122

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Variations of polyphony in blogs

The case of the Slow Art Day blog

 | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
 | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Published online: 7 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00139.bon
Abstract
This paper looks at dialogicity in the Slow Art Day blog and focuses on the way the representation of participants encodes the complexity of the communicative action through a polyphony of textual voices. By focusing on posts from the pandemic years (2020 and 2021), and contrasting them with the previous period, we carry out a collocation analysis and a study of semantic preferences (Sinclair, John. 2004. Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) to explore how writers present themselves and how they interact with the reader and other textual voices in a context of cultural intermediation. By looking at forms of address and of self-mention, we trace how this blog enacts different forms of dialogic action with its readers and stakeholders in the extended situational context.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Blogs and dialogicity
  • 2.Background: Slow Art Day
  • 3.Materials and methods
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Keyword List
    • 4.2Introducing themselves to visitors: The use of we
    • 4.3Addressing readers as visitors: The use of you
    • 4.4Reporting other voices
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Note
  • References
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