List of Figures p. ix
List of Tables p. xii
Acknowledgements p. xv
Introduction Sheena Gardner and Siân Alsop p. 1
Part I Texts that Are Born Digital: New Digital Genres
1 ''There''s power in stories'': A Multimodal Corpus-Based and Functional Analysis of Fandom Blogs Maria Grazia Sindoni p. 13
2 Digitality and Persuasive Technologies: Towards an SFL Model of New Social Actions and Practices in Digital Settings Sandra Petroni p. 29
3 Digital Citizenship: Social Actors in Blog Posts to Chilean Online News Portals Lésmer Montecitio and María Cristina Arancibia p. 45
4 Imagined Community and Affective Alignment in Memorial Tributes to Steve Jobs on YouTube Ann Harju p. 62
5 Commenting, Interacting, Reposting: A Systemic-Functional Analysis of Online Newspaper Comments Mariavita Cambria p. 81
Part II Texts that Achieve Digitality: Professional Genres Recontextualized
6 ''We''re hearing from Reuters that...'': The Role of Around-the-Clock News Media in the Increased Use of the Present Progressive with Mental Process Type Verbs Ben Clarke p. 99
7 The Construal of Terminal Illness in Online Medical Texts: Social Distance and Semantic Space Meriel Bloor p. 120
8 Moving Online to Teach Academic Writing in Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice Helen Drury p. 134
9 Cut and Paste: Recontextualizing Meaning-Material in a Digital Environment Daniel Lees Fryer p. 151
10 Analysis of an Online University Lecture: Multimodal Perspectives Mersini Karagevrekis p. 166
11 Transitivity in Language Event Reports in an Online Corpus of Science Journalism Blanca García Riaza p. 184
12 Is This the End of Hypertext? Hotel Websites'' Return to Linearity Martin Kaltenbacher p. 198
Part III Texts that Have Digitality Thrust Upon Them: Super Powers in Text Analysis
13 On Negotiating the Hurdles of Corpus-Assisted Appraisal Analysis in Verbal Art Donna R. Miller p. 211
14 Diachronic Change from Washington to Obama: The Challenges and Constraints of Corpus-Assisted Meaning Analysis Paul Bayley and Cinzia Bevitori p. 229
15 The Role of Corpus Annotation in the SFL-CL Marriage: A Test Case on the EU Debt Crisis Sabrina Fusari p. 246
16 Grammatical Metaphor through the Lens of Software? Examining ''Crisis'' in a Corpus of Articles from The Financial Times Antonella Luporini p. 260
17 A Corpus Approach to Method of Development: Discourse Markers and Presuming Reference in 32ICE-GB Text Types Michael Cummings p. 276
18 Journey of Three Digitized Texts: Entextualization and Recontextualization in a Corpus Study Tom Morton and Anne McCabe p. 296
19 Annotating Cohesive Ellipses in an English-German Corpus Katrin Menzel p. 310
20 Linguistic Characteristics of Schizophrenia and Mania Computationally Revealed Ekaterina Shagalov and Jonathan Fine† p. 328
Subject Index p. 348
Author index p. 351
