Genre crash: The case of online shopping

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TitleGenre crash: The case of online shopping
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsAndersen, Thomas Hestbæk, and Theo Jacob van Leeuwen
JournalDiscourse, Context & Media
Volume20
Pagination191 - 203
ISSN22116958
Abstract

Departing from systemic-functional studies of the genre of face to face shopping, the paper provides a cartography of an online fashion shopping site, showing how it consists of an array of micro genres (themselves hybrids of genres such as advertisements, fashion spreads, lifestyle magazine articles and Instagram style social media photography) which can be navigated in different ways, yet always connect to purchase options. Multimodally, online fashion shopping entextualizes face to face fashion shopping and in the process transduces embodied modes of communication into text and image, relying a great deal more on language than its face to face equivalent.

URLhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695816301933
DOI10.1016/j.dcm.2017.06.007
Short TitleDiscourse, Context & Media