Author : Crispin Thurlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199795436
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Book Synopsis Digital Discourse by : Crispin Thurlow
Download or read book Digital Discourse written by Crispin Thurlow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply bringing new media sociolinguistics up to date, addressing current technologies like instant messaging, textmessaging, blogging, photo-sharing, mobile phones, gaming, social network sites, and video sharing. Chapters cover a range of communicative contexts (journalism, gaming, tourism, leisure, performance, public debate), communicators (professional and lay, young people and adults, intimates and groups), and languages (Irish, Hebrew, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, German, Greek, Arabic, and French). The volume is organized around topics of primary interest to sociolinguists, including genre, style and stance. With commentaries from the two most internationally recognized scholars of new media discourse (Naomi Baron and Susan Herring) and essays by well-established scholars and new voices in sociolinguistics, the volume will be more current, more diverse, and more thematically unified than any other collection on the topic.