This volume focuses on the connection between participation constellations and identity construction as a specific, yet under-researched problem of text and media linguistics. It assembles empirical analyses of a wide range of corpora, ranging from naturally occurring talk-in-interaction over TV series and social media discourse to the linguistic landscapes of Namibia. In addition to insights into dynamic participation and identity constellations in the respective corpora, the articles develop new theoretical concepts and categories. This volume is of interest to advanced students and scholars in linguistics, media studies and sociology alike.

This volume presents a range of academic approaches to genre emergence which is representative of the currently ongoing research, while retaining a common methodological core. The articles presented here use methods from text linguistics, conversation analysis, literary studies and media linguistics. Different driving forces of genre emergence are identified, e.g. function, communication form and culture. This book also aims to cover the emergence of many different genres: It includes chapters on newspaper and magazine genres, readers' comments, print advertisements, TV news shows and sitcom series, Wutreden, shitstorms, weblogs and erotic romance novels.

This volume reflects the discussion that emerged around the controversial concepts "communication form", "communicative practice", "medium" and "genre". It provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current state-of-affairs of these concepts, and combines theoretical contributions from various perspectives with thorough empirical studies of current communication forms, media, and practices. The contributions deal with fields ranging from public signage in cities, video games and self-tracking to historical accounts of changing communicative potentials and practices concerning the "National Geographic Magazine" and the personal blog. Due to its interdisciplinary character, the volume points out various new directions for future research.

This book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1997-2012) suggests distinct phases in the history of the genre. In addition to media linguistics, the author draws on methods from textual and corpus linguistics as well as the social sciences. He traces the personal weblog's various relations to different on- and offline genres and describes the blog communication form as well as the communicative situation, structural features and several posting genres characteristic of personal weblogs. The findings are embedded into theoretical considerations on genre change in general as well as stability and change of web-based genres in particular.

Das Buch liefert einen Einblick in fachbezogene Inklusionsdiskurse in nahezu jeder Fachdidaktik. Zudem werden fur die jeweiligen Fachdidaktiken "typische" Phanomene schulischer Inklusion herausgearbeitet und beispielhaft illustriert. Im Durchgang durch die unterschiedlichen fachdidaktischen "Aneignungsformen" des bildungspolitischen Impulses der UN-BRK zur Institutionalisierung eines inklusiven Schulsystems zeigt sich, dass die disziplinaren Eigenlogiken der Facher durchaus wirksam sind, zugleich aber vielfaltige schulpraktische Loesungen angeboten werden. So bietet das Buch insgesamt eine Synopse des facherspezifischen Inklusionsdiskurses als Antwort auf die governanceanalytische Frage: "Was implementiert sich da eigentlich?"

This volume aims to represent the breadth and depth of current linguistic research of predominantly young linguists and thus to produce a snapshot of topical linguistic issues and trends. Therefore, it presents papers from systemic linguistics next to ones on text linguistics, sociolinguistics and the didactics of language. The volume is based on talks given at the 14th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium 2013 in Halle an der Saale. The book contains 14 contributions in English, and three in German.