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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,…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2012Oxford University Press · 9781283427333
- Other · English · 2011Oxford University Press · 364 pages · 9780199795437
- Other · English · 2011Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780199795536
Social mediaDiscourse analysisDigital mediaSocial aspectsSociolinguisticsTechnological innovations