International participation and discursive choices in the digital genre of the travel blog comment

• Daniel Pascual ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Zaragoza

     Universidad de Zaragoza

     Zaragoza, España

     
• Localización: LFE: Revista de lenguas para fines específicos, ISSN 1133-1127, Vol. 26, Nº 1, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Investigar en Traducción e Interpretación: Nuevos Enfoques y Perspectivas), págs. 180-195
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.20420/rlfe.2020.321
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  • English

    Current ways of informal globalized communication involve digital genres facilitating increasingly dialogical, immediate interactions. One representative example is found in blogs, where users’ interaction is enabled through the genre of the comment to a previous post. In a corpus of 15 entries from 5 travel blogs, 318 comments have been analysed to study international participation in the blogosphere by different English users, native and non-native speakers. First, the quantity and length of their contributions are studied to consider the possible impact of their linguacultural background in ELF digital communication. Second, a discursive data-driven analysis of travel blog comments is provided, highlighting its most salient features, in order to better comprehend this specific digital discourse and to favour international successful participation in such a web-mediated environment.

  • English

    Actualmente, la comunicación informal global abarca géneros digitales que promueven interacciones dialógicas e inmediatas. Ejemplo de ello son los blogs, donde la interacción de los usuarios se realiza mediante el género del comentario a un post anterior. En un corpus de 15 entradas de 5 blogs de viajes, se han analizado 318 comentarios para estudiar la participación internacional en la blogosfera de distintos usuarios de la lengua inglesa, nativos y no nativos. Se explora la cantidad y extensión de sus contribuciones para considerar el posible impacto de sus características linguaculturales en contextos de comunicación digital a través de ILF. Un análisis discursivo de los comentarios de blogs de viajes derivado de los datos enfatiza las características principales del género para comprender mejor este discurso digital y así favorecer una participación internacional efectiva en este contexto en la web.

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