Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub

This article examines the discursive strategies at play in style guide negotiation on GitHub. Looking at three popular guides for the JavaScript language—Standard, Airbnb, Prettier—, we highlight how source code, executable code, networks of communities and platform affordances are used as arguments...

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Päätekijä: Depaz, Pierre
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:reset_3425 https://doi.org/10.4000/reset.3425 urn:doi:10.4000/reset.3425 en https://journals.openedition.org/reset/3425 2022-04-21T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/jvu6 All rights reserved Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub RESET Association Recherches en sciences sociales sur Internet info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2264-6221 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/reset Depaz, Pierre Style guides discursive negotiations sociolinguistics computer-supported cooperative work This article examines the discursive strategies at play in style guide negotiation on GitHub. Looking at three popular guides for the JavaScript language—Standard, Airbnb, Prettier—, we highlight how source code, executable code, networks of communities and platform affordances are used as arguments of their own in the adoption and modification of theoretically immutable documents. Through discourse analysis, we show how programmers display multifaceted practices in a social context of work, modulated by technical affordances of platforms and programming languages.
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topic Style guides
discursive negotiations
sociolinguistics
computer-supported cooperative work
spellingShingle Style guides
discursive negotiations
sociolinguistics
computer-supported cooperative work
Depaz, Pierre
Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
description This article examines the discursive strategies at play in style guide negotiation on GitHub. Looking at three popular guides for the JavaScript language—Standard, Airbnb, Prettier—, we highlight how source code, executable code, networks of communities and platform affordances are used as arguments of their own in the adoption and modification of theoretically immutable documents. Through discourse analysis, we show how programmers display multifaceted practices in a social context of work, modulated by technical affordances of platforms and programming languages.
author Depaz, Pierre
author_facet Depaz, Pierre
author_sort Depaz, Pierre
title Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
title_short Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
title_full Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
title_fullStr Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
title_full_unstemmed Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
title_sort discursive strategies in style guides negotiation on github
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