Language, media and technologies
Subtitle: usages, forms and functions
By: Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng, Camilla Arundie Tabe & Daniel Nkemleke (eds.).
Series: Linguistics edition -- 119; Edition Linguistik -- 119.
Publisher: LINCOM GmbH
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Muenchen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9783862889266
Subjects: English language; Digital media; Social media; Phraseology; Text messaging (Cell phone systems); Sociolinguistics; Mass media and language; Social aspects
Description: This book analyses from various perspectives topical and empirical issues related to language, media and technologies. To be more precise, the book studies the revitalisation of minority languages through the media, the pragmatics of condolence messages in online news fora, the use of corpora to analyse of grammatical items, punctuation in cyber texts, the conceptualisation of social ills such as corruption in online media, the gendered use of language in chat groups, issues on language and identity in online fora and digital practices such as internet memes. The volume comprises 10 papers whose data were collected from questionnaire, participant observation, written materials, online and audio-visual sources, just to name a few. The analyses done in the various papers are sociolinguistic, cognitive, graphological, morphological, lexical, discursive, semantic, pragmatic, etc. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revitalisation of minority languages through the media: the Cameroon experience / Alain Flaubert Takam; title: The pragmatics of condolence messages in a cameroonian online news forum / Bernard Mulo Farenkia; title: Frequency, meaning and contextual features of modals in the corpus of Cameroon English / David Nkemleke; title: Does punctuation matter?: the changing nature of cyber texts with reference to cameroonian e-mail and Facebook / Camilla Arundie Tabe; title: On the conceptualisation of corruption metaphors in Cameroon online media / Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng; title: Women predicament in war situation: an investigation on language used on online media / Jean Pierre Atouga; title: Gender inequality in cyberspace: the case of misogynous internent language in Korea / Mun Woo Lee; title: Language and identity in the discourse of a whatsapp chat group / Comfort Oben Beyang Ojongnkpot; title: Internet memes as digital practices: stock character macros in multimodal structure, function, and metapragmatic reflexivity / Florian Busch and Johannes C.P. Schmid; title: Textual functions of metaphor in Nigerian literature: the example of Soyinka and Achebe / Edmund Bamiro.