Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199795436 ISBN 13: 9780199795437

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Language and Communication at University of Washington (Bothell).

Kristine Mroczek is a doctoral candidate in Communication at University of Washington (Seattle).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199795436
• ISBN 13: 9780199795437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Thurlow Crispin, Mroczek Kristine