What Is an Author Now? Discourse Analysis Applied to the Idea of an Author Articles uri icon

authors

  • MARTINEZ AVILA, DANIEL
  • Lee, Hur-Li
  • Fox, Melodie

publication date

  • September 2015

start page

  • 1094

end page

  • 1114

issue

  • 5

volume

  • 71

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-0418

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1758-7379

abstract

  • The purpose of this paper is to discuss and shed light on the following questions: What is an author? Is it a person who writes? Or, is it, in information, an iconic taxonomic designation (some might say a "classification") for a group of writings that are recognized by the public in some particular way? What does it mean when a search engine, or catalog, asks a user to enter the name of an author? And how does that accord with the manner in which the data have been entered in association with the names of the entities identified with the concept of authorship?

keywords

  • search engines; catalogues, epistemology; postmodernism