Overview
- Studies the world's largest online enyclopaedia both theoretically and empirically
- Explores Wikipedia’s origin, evolution and notable site structure
- Illustrates the linguistic and discursive differences between Wikipedia's 'front stage' and 'back stage'
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This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse and communication studies, redressing the gap in research on Wikipedia in these fields and encouraging scholars to explore Wikipedia further as a platform and a medium. Drawing on Herring's situational and medium factors, as well as related developments in (critical) discourse studies, the author studies the online encyclopaedia both theoretically and empirically, examining its origins, production and consumption before turning to a discussion of its societal significance and function(s). This book will be of interest to Wikipedia scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as those with a broader interest in linguistics, discourse studies and the digital humanities.
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About the author
Susanne Kopf is an Assistant Professor of English Business Communication at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria. Her research interests include corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies, Wikipedia and social media studies with a focus on exploring online communities’ debates and attitudes concerning well-known organizations and events.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia
Book Subtitle: More than an Encyclopaedia?
Authors: Susanne Kopf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11024-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11023-8Published: 06 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11024-5Published: 05 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 168
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Linguistics, general, Digital Humanities, Journalism, Digital/New Media, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics