Language and the Internet

Name: Language and the Internet
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ISBN: 9780521868594

ISBN-10: 0521868599

ISBN-13: 9780521868594

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: David Crystal

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In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this is a revealing account of how the Internet is radically changing the way we use language. This second…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.74" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232



A note on the second edition


Preface to the first edition



A linguistic perspective



The medium of Netspeak



Finding an identity



The language of e-mail



The language of chatgroups



The language of virtual worlds



The language of the Web



New varieties



The linguistic future of the Internet


References


Index of authors


Index of topics