'I just found your blog'. The pragmatics of initiating comments on blog posts

- Focus on the pragmatic means used at the onset of blog comments
- Insights into the interaction between commenters and blog authors
- Study based on the Birmingham Blog Corpus http://www.webcorp.org.uk/blogs
- Introducing a new approach to the study of speech acts in large corpora
- Uncovering medium-specific uses of expressive speech acts in blog comments