Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide

ISBN-13: 9780415602686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 182 str.

David Crystal

Opis

The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life and linguists are increasingly concerned with how it is impacting on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, David Crystal investigates how so much junk email gets past the spam filter and how to stop it, and he looks at why we overuse exclamation marks in online communication.

Spis treści

1. Linguistic Perspectives 2. The Internet as a Medium 3. A Microexample 4. Language Change 5. A Multilingual Internet 6. Applied Internet Linguistics 7. A Case Study 8. Towards a Theoretical Internet Linguistics. Appendix: Research directions and activities

O autorze

David Crystal is a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, based in Holyhead, North Wales. He is author of numerous books including Just a Phrase I’m Going Through (Routledge 2009). The first Routledge David Crystal Lectures DVD, The Future of Language, was published in 2009.