Digital Discourse

Language in the New Media
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-979544-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thurlow, Crispin

Mroczek, Kristine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

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).