A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia: More Than an Encyclopaedia?

by Susanne Kopf

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031110234
• ISBN13: 9783031110238
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"