Title: Digital discourse : language in the new media /
Authors: Thurlow, Crispin.; Mroczek, Kristine R.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Social media; Digital media.; Technological innovations Social aspects; Discourse analysis Social aspects.
Abstract: 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. -- Book Description.
Contents: Introduction : Fresh perspectives on new media sociolinguistics / Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek -- Part 1. Metadiscursive framings of new media language : Voicing "sexy text" heteroglossia and erasure in TV news representations of Detroit's text message scandal / Lauren Squires -- When friends who talk together stalk together: online gossip as metacommunication / Graham M. Jones, Bambi B. Schieffelin, Rachel E. Smith -- "Join our community of translators": language ideologies and/in Facebook / Aoife Lenihan -- Part 2. Creative genres: texting, messaging, and multimodality : Beyond genre: closings and relational work in text messaging / Tereza Spilioti -- Japanese Keitai novels and ideologies of literacy / Yukiko Nishimura -- Micro-blogging and status updates on Facebook: texts and practices / Carmen K.M. Lee --^