Date: 07-Mar-2007 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Language and the Internet: Crystal
Title: Language and the Internet
Subtitle: (2nd Edition)
Published: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: David Crystal
Electronic: ISBN: 9780511243554 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 24.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521868599 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Abstract:
2nd Edition of Language and the Internet
In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this is a revealing account of how the Internet is radically changing the way we use language. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to account for more recent phenomena, with a brand new chapter on blogging and instant messaging. Engaging and accessible, it will continue to fascinate anyone who has ever used the Internet.
A note on the second edition vii Preface to the first edition ix 1 A linguistic perspective 1 2 The medium of Netspeak 26 3 Finding an identity 66 4 The language of e-mail 99 5 The language of chatgroups 134 6 The language of virtual worlds 178 7 The language of the Web 203 8 New varieties 238 9 The linguistic future of the Internet 257 References 277 Index of authors 286 Index of topics
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
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