Laurie McNeill

List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurie McNeill is involved.

Article

McNeill, Laurie 2009 Brave new genre, or generic colonialism? Debates over ancestry in Internet diaries Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 143–162 | Article

This chapter analyses online users’ debates about the generic classification and ancestry of “blogs” and “Internet diaries,” looking in particular at users’ defensive definitions and meta-generic commentary that would distinguish the blog from the diary. I argue that these directives draw on… read more