Digital Textuality

ISBN-13: 9781137334961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

Paola Trimarco

Opis

Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies. This undergraduate textbook covers a range of digital text genres, including news sites, social media, collaborative fiction, hypertext fiction and poetry. Using Hallidayan linguistics, along with other approaches, such as Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Semiotics and Text World Theory, this book reflects the latest language-based research in digital texts. Topics included in these chapters are digital literacy, identity, online communities, hybridity and superdiversity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Digital Textuality 2. Learning and Digital Textuality 3. Social Networking Sites (SNSs) 4. Digital News 5. Digital Poetry 6. Fiction and Collaboration Online 7. Hypertext Fiction 8. Genre Hybrids and Superdiversity Glossary.

O autorze

Paola Trimarco is an Associate Professor at the University of Nizwa in the Sultanate of Oman, where she teaches on the MA in English Language. Her publications include chapters in Teaching the New English: Short Stories (Palgrave), Trends in Pedagogical Stylistics (Continuum) and Handbook of Stylistics (Routledge). She is also the author of three books for Penguin EFL Readers and she is a co-author of The Discourse of Reading Groups: Socio-cognitive Approaches (Routledge).

Blurb

From topics such as digital literacy and online communities, to questions surrounding identity and hybridity, Digital Textuality is an essential guide for anybody who wants to understand how the English language is being used in new media technologies.

Covering a range of genres such as collaborative and hypertext fiction, social media and news sites, this is required reading for students of language and linguistics, media and cultural studies.

Digital Textuality includes:
• Numerous examples drawn from real-life texts that reflect this exciting and fast-evolving field
• Easy-to-understand linguistic approaches that reflect the very latest in language-based research
• Additional readings in every chapter, with activities and sample projects to give the reader ideas for further reflection and study