Analysing digital communication: discursive features, rhetorical structure and the use of English as a lingua franca in travel blog posts

Analysing digital communication: discursive features, rhetorical structure and the use of English as a lingua franca in travel blog posts

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The digital world is currently offering new modes of communication that allow multiple opportunities for a more immediate and dialogical interaction.Within it, the blog shows up as a very resourceful and sophisticated genre where different 2004 nissan titan exhaust system sub-genres converge and where speakers from distinct linguacultural backgrounds can communicate through English, which is used as a lingua franca (ELF).Thus, to start comprehending the rationale of the blog, an analysis of the sub-genre of posts and, more specifically, those hosted in travel blogs, is provided in this paper.The linguistic and discursive prominent features encapsulated in travel blog posts will be explored through a bunny spa headband data-driven approach, and their rhetorical structure will be identified via a functional analysis.This will allow to understand better how the ELF blogosphere makes use of such a digital sub-genre and what the readership may expect when communicating digitally through it.