Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media

by Crispin Thurlow

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199795444
• ISBN13: 9780199795444
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"