Variation Among Blogs: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

A blog, short for a weblog, is a website containing an archive of regularly updated online postings. The postings are generally made by one person and presented in reverse chronological order. The archive is generally made freely available to the public. The postings tend to consist primarily of raw...

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Published inGenres on the Web Vol. 42; pp. 303 - 322
Main Authors Grieve, Jack, Biber, Douglas, Friginal, Eric, Nekrasova, Tatiana
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The Netherlands Springer Netherlands 2010
SeriesText, Speech and Language Technology
Subjects
Blogs
Computational linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Natural language & machine translation
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ISBN9789048191772
9048191777
ISSN1386-291X
DOI10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9_14

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Summary:A blog, short for a weblog, is a website containing an archive of regularly updated online postings. The postings are generally made by one person and presented in reverse chronological order. The archive is generally made freely available to the public. The postings tend to consist primarily of raw text, but may also contain hyperlinks and other media, including picture, video and sound files. Often blogs allow for readers to post comments as well.
ISBN:9789048191772
9048191777
ISSN:1386-291X
DOI:10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9_14