My paper "Four Axes of Rhetorical Convergence" is now out, in the new "Scandinavian Issue" of Dichtung Digital. It's a shorter version of the first essay in my thesis, drawing all my findings together.
This essay presents a theoretical model of genre relations in multimedia. Any text may be described according to the four axes Mode of Distribution (the balance of amount of material and time between authoring and reading); Mode of Restrictions (range and detail in space and time); Mode of Acquisition (the reading process required of the reader); and Mode of Signification (the particular combination of sign systems). Rhetorical convergence is when a text is similar to one genre on one axis and another genre on another axis. However, the model implies that rhetorical divergence may be a better description.
Also in the issue: works by Aki, Lisbeth, Torill, Raine, Ragnhild and others. I am looking forward to reading their stuff, I'm pretty sure it's good.
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