Okay, so I'm still working on my part of the study of posts made to fanficrants that I mentioned months ago. I should have finished way back in April, but my head decided it was time for yet another breakdown so blah, didn't get it done all summer. Now, though, it appears that the teacher is going away at the end of September and I NEED those credits I'd ( Read more... )

I'm doing a research project on politeness/impoliteness in (wanky posts in) fanficrants for a course on Web Linguistics. I didn't think I'd ever end up doing academic research on anything concerning fans and fandom, much less a community like fanficrants, but there you go. That, however, is just some background info: the real thing I wanted to draw attention to is the ( Read more... )