Discursive practices and emerging discourse communities: The case of Czech geocaching

CHOVANEC, Jan. Discursive practices and emerging discourse communities: The case of Czech geocaching. In 4th Nitra Conference on Discourse Studies: Discourse Analysis in a Digital World. 2011.

Basic information

• Original name: Discursive practices and emerging discourse communities: The case of Czech geocaching
• Name in Czech: Diskurzní praxe a vznikající diskurzní komunity: Případ českého geocachingu
• Authors: CHOVANEC, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 4th Nitra Conference on Discourse Studies: Discourse Analysis in a Digital World, 2011.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
• Country of publisher: Slovakia
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/11:00056221
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords (in Czech): analýza diskurzu; žánr; community of practice; neologismus; geocaching; kešonym
• Keywords in English: discourse analysis; genre; community of practice; neologism; geocaching; cacheonym; geocaching logbook entry structure
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The presentation is one of the first linguistic analyses into the discourse of geocaching. It addresses the way the geocachers construct themselves as an online community of practice. The community is linguistically characterized by the use of, among other, creative patterns of word formation. The presentation also describes the structure of an online geocaching logbook entry and provides an analysis of cacheonyms, i.e. the motivation for the names chosen by their owners to name cache locations.

Abstract (in Czech)

Prezentace je jednou z prvních analýz diskurzu geocachingu. Zabývá se způsobem, jak se tato komunita konstituuje prostřednictvím jazyka, především kreativním užíváním neologismů. Pozornost je věnována rovněž tentativní struktuře zápisu v elektronickém deníku a analýze motivace pojmenování keší (tzv. kešonyma).