Internet Linguistics

Author : Gretchen McCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735210942
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because Internet written by Gretchen McCulloch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136825592
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internet Linguistics written by David Crystal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller, Language and the Internet and takes things one step further. This book presents the area as a new field : Internet linguistics.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521868599
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and the Internet written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : P. Seargeant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137029315
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Social Media written by P. Seargeant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.

Author : Michael Mandiberg
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814764053
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Media Reader written by Michael Mandiberg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection to address the collective transformation happening in response to the rise of social media With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few. It covers a wide-ranging topical terrain, much like the internet itself, with particular emphasis on collaboration and sharing, the politics of social media and social networking, Free Culture and copyright politics, and labor and ownership. Theorizing new models of collaboration, identity, commerce, copyright, ownership, and labor, these essays outline possibilities for cultural democracy that arise when the formerly passive audience becomes active cultural creators, while warning of the dystopian potential of new forms of surveillance and control.

Author : Daniel Dejica
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110470721
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in the Digital Era. Challenges and Perspectives written by Daniel Dejica and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pinpoints the impact of new technologies on language and communication, highlights the evolution and changes undergone by humanities in conjunction with technological innovation, and looks at how language has adapted to the challenges of today’s digitized world.

Author : Chaoqun Xie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260354
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Internet Pragmatics written by Chaoqun Xie and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this linguistic perspective to internet communication, under the umbrella label of internet pragmatics, are not only welcome, but necessary. The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter. This collection also addresses the role of emoticons and emoji in typed-text dialogues and the importance of “physical place” in internet interactions (exhibiting an interplay of online-offline environments), as is the case in the role of place in locative media and in broader place-related communication, as in migration.

Author : Tim Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487300
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Online Identities written by Tim Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a unique forensic linguistic project on online undercover policing the authors further understanding of language and identity.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136825584
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internet Linguistics written by David Crystal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as a new field: Internet linguistics. In his engaging trademark style, Crystal addresses the online linguistic issues that affect us on a daily basis, incorporating real-life examples drawn from his own studies and personal involvement with Internet companies. He provides new linguistic analyses of Twitter, Internet security, and online advertising, explores the evolving multilingual character of the Internet, and offers illuminating observations about a wide range of online behaviour, from spam to exclamation marks. Including many activities and suggestions for further research, this is the essential introduction to a critical new field for students of all levels of English language, linguistics and new media.

Author : Brenda Danet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195304802
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multilingual Internet written by Brenda Danet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to analysing internet related CMC in languages other than English, this volume collects 18 new articles on facets of language and internet use, all of which revolve around several central topics : writing systems, the structure and features of local languages and how they affect internet use, gender issues, and so on--Résumé de l'éditeur.