Inscription and interpretation of text: a cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community
People engaging in electronic exchanges can create communities--places with socially constituted norms, values, and expectations. We adopt an anthropological perspective, yoked with a methodology based in hermeneutics, to illustrate how language use both reflects and influences culture in a virtual...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Borås
2003-01-01
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Series: | Information Research: An International Electronic Journal |
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Online Access: | http://informationr.net/ir/9-1/paper162.html |