[1] Course syllabus, "Content Analysis for the World Wide Web", taught by Susan Herring during Spring 2003, at SLIS, Indiana University, Bloomington. See http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/web.syll.03.html [cited]
[2] Döring (2002, p.7) theoretically distinguishes 'identity' and 'self' by stating that identity is the more narrow concept, while self is the broader concept. [cited]
[3] For the remaining percentage, see http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/Home_pages-n_970614.html [cited]
[4] The textual metafunction covers language used as an instrument of communication with which we build up cohesive and coherent sequences. The interpersonal metafunction describes the use we make of language as an interpersonal medium. In the ideational (or experiential) metafunction the clause is used to represent the experiential world (i.e. real world phenomena).
[5] These stages are demonstrated in Example 1 in this study. [cited]
[6] See section 6.3.1 and the discussion in section 8. [cited]
[7] Bates and Lu (1997) found in their study that the ten most popular items of personal homepages were e-mail address, name, favourite websites, gender, photo, current work, educational background, hobbies or interests, mailing address, and previous work experience. [cited]
[8] The role language is playing in the interaction (Eggins (1994, p.52))
[9] See the discussion of minor clauses below Table 3. [cited]
[10] The principal grammatical system of the interpersonal metafunction is MOOD, whereby the clause functions as an exchange between ourselves and others. The three broad types of MOOD are: indicative (declaratives, interrogatives), imperative and subjunctive. [cited]
[11] The general definition of markedness is that the unmarked form represents the most neutral and expected form, whereas the marked form represents the unexpected form (Crystal 1997:233). [cited]
[12] For a previous analysis of pronouns in CMC see e.g., Yates, 1996 in Herring ed. [cited]
[13]The date is sometimes also added by the program that is used for making the homepage. Bates and Lu (1997) found this feature in 43% of the personal homepages they analysed. [cited]
[14] Bates and Lu (1997) found that only a minority of personal homepages in their study explicitly invoked the 'home as domicile' metaphor. [cited]