Always On
Subtitle: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: March 7, 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195313055
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Cultural studies; Impact of science & technology on society; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
Description: Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had surprisingly little impact on student writing.
Notes: Joint winner of the 2008 Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award.
Table of contents: title: Email to your brain : language in an online and mobile world; title: Language online : the basics; title: Controlling the volume : everyone a language czar; title: Are instant messages speech? The world of IM; title: My best day : managing "buddies" and "friends"; title: Having your say : blogs and beyond; title: Going mobile : cell phones in context; title: Whatever : is the Internet destroying language?; title: Gresham's ghost : challenges to written culture; title: The people we become : the cost of being always on