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What is Online Diary

Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
A type of weblog (blog) that is used by the author as a personal journal but is publicly available for others to view and comment upon. Differs from other blog types in that the subject matter is grounded in the experiences of the author, and is not thematically based.
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First Person Pronouns in Online Diary Writing
John Newman (University of Alberta, Canada) and Laura Teddiman (University of Alberta, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch018
Abstract
It is well-known that first person pronouns have a particularly important role to play in conversation. “Online diary” style of writing is less well understood and the role of first person pronouns in that style invites further study. In this chapter the authors explore these pronouns in UK and US online diaries, paying particular attention to frequency and collocational relations. In previous corpus-based studies of English genres, first person pronouns have tended to be considered as one larger set without differentiation. The authors find, on the contrary, that the differences between these forms can be very revealing in the way they distinguish online diary style of writing from other genres such as conversation and fiction writing. The findings underline the need to respect inflectional variants of lemmas as objects of study in their own right.
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