Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

Naomi S. Baron

ISBN 10: 0415186854 / ISBN 13: 9780415186858

Published by Routledge, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415186854
• ISBN 13: 9780415186858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality.
Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English.
Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going.

About the Author

Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Language and Foreign Studies at American University. She is the author of five previous books about language, including Growing Up With Language: How children learn to talk (Addison-Wesley, 1992).