Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research Rationales 1
1.2 Key concepts revisited 5
1.3 An overview of identity accounts 11
1.4 Situating edublog studies in the ecology of Intemet 29
1.5 Objectives and significance of the present study 43
1.6 Methodology and data specification 46
1.7 Organization of the book 49
Chapter 2 Theoretical Preparation and Formation 51
2.1 Introduction 51
2.2 Functional perspectives on language 52
2.3 Conceptual foundations for the proposed model 62
2.4 A proposed model for the present study 79
2.5 Summary 82
Chapter 3 Genre as Identity:A Generic Analysis of Edublogs 84
3.1 Introduction 84
3.2 Genre as social activity—a theoretical survey 85
3.3 A generic analysis of edublogs—a quantitative approach 95
3.4 Capturing the entry body texts 117
3.5 Discussion and conclusion 121
Chapter 4 Using"Private Verbs"to Build Virtual Identity 127
4.1 Introduction 127
4.2 Defining and classifying private verbs 127
4.3 The debate of private language argument 130
4.4 Functions and virtual images created by"I+private verb" 132
4.5 Discussion and conclusion 146
Chapter 5 Using Questions to Build Virtual Image 151
5.1 Introduction 151
5.2 Theoretical survey 151
5.3 Questions in edublogs:forms and functions 161
5.4 Questions,audience design and identity construction 180
5.5 Summary 185
Chapter 6 Attitude as Identification:Focusing on One Entry Body Text 187
6.1 Introduction 187
6.2 Individual text as a construct of social practice 188
6.3 Attitude in Appraisal Theory 189
6.4 Appraising the entry body text to be analyzed 196
6.5 Struggling between self and others:Using Attitude in analysis 201
6.6 Discussion and conclusion 210
Chapter 7 Conclusion 214
7.1 Major contributions 214
7.2 Chief findings and implications 218
7.3 Limitations and suggestions for future research 221
Bibliography 223
Appendix:Edublog addresses with the naming clusters 249
Table 2.1 Register and metafunction 54
Table 2.2 Varieties in language 55
Table 2.3 Interpersonal semantics 65
Table 2.4 Li's interpersonal model 66
Table 3.1 Offline professional identities claimed by the 48 edubloggers 103
Table 3.2 Virtual identities projected by edubloggers 104
Table 3.3 Structural features of the entry clusters 108
Table 3.4 Structural features of the sidebar clusters 112
Table 3.5 Links from the sidebar clusters 115
Table 3.6 Top ten categories 116
Table 4.1 Classifying private verbs 130
Table 4.2 Expressions of probability 137
Table 4.3 A comparison of"I-It"and"I-Thou" 147
Table 5.1 Speech roles 157
Table 5.2 Examples of metaphorical realizations of proposals and propositions invoiving projection nexuses 159
Table 5.3 Further examples of interpersonal metaphor 160
Table 5.4 Sample congruent questions 162
Table 5.5 Sample metaphorical questions 164
Table 5.6 Analysis of projectional questions in relation to their congruent forms 167
Table 6.1 Value of Affect 192
Table 6.2 Judgments of social esteem 193
Table 6.3 Judgments of social sanction 194
Table 6.4 Types of Appreciation 195
Figure 1.1 Modeling pedagogic identities 22
Figure 1.2 The contemporary identity field 24
Figure 1.3 Types of blogs 34
Figure 1.4 Weblogs on a continuum between standard web pages and CMC 35
Figure 1.5 A sample edublog 39
Figure 2.1 System and structure 56
Figure 2.2 Proposition system 58
Figure 2.3 Prosodic realization of interpersonal meaning 60
Figure 2.4 Particulate realization of experiential meaning 61
Figure 2.5 Culminative realization of textual meaning 62
Figure 2.6 Halliday's interpersonal model 63
Figure 2.7 Martin ＆ White's Interpersonal Model 65
Figure 2.8 General layout of FDG 69
Figure 2.9 Grammatical components of FDG 70
Figure 2.10 The proposed interpersonal model 79
Figure 2.11 The interpersonal-based identity research medel 80
Figure 3.1 Genre and its semiotic environment 90
Figure 3.2 Genre and register in relation to language 91
Figure 3.3 Examples of the items in edublogs 96
Figure 3.4 Examples of the naming clusters 97
Figure 3.5 Self as Social Product 106
Figure 3.6 Virtual identities in terms of generic analysis 123
Figure 3.7 The naming cluster of David Warlick's edublog 125
Figure 6.1 Strategies for inscribing and invoking Attitude 196
Figure 7.1 Representing the interpersonal-based identity research model 214
Figure 7.2 Summarizing virtual identities in edublogs 217