Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media

by Crispin Thurlow (Editor), Kristine Mroczek (Editor)

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 debate), communicators (professional and lay, young people and adults, intimates and groups), and languages (Irish, Hebrew, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, German, Greek, Arabic, and French). The volume is organized around topics of primary interest to sociolinguists, including genre, style and stance. With commentaries from the two most internationally recognized scholars of new media discourse (Naomi Baron and Susan Herring) and essays by well-established scholars and new voices in sociolinguistics, the volume will be more current, more diverse, and more thematically unified than any other collection on the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199339730
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/26/2011
Series:	Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Language and Communication at University of Washington (Bothell). Kristine Mroczek is a doctoral candidate in Communication at University of Washington (Seattle).

Table of Contents

Foreward, Naomi BaronIntroduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics, Crispin Thurlow and Kristine MroczekPart 1: Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language1. Voicing "Sexy Text": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal, Lauren Squires2. When Friends Who Talk Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication, Graham Jones, Bambi Schieffelin, and Rachel Smith3. "Join Our Community of Translators" Language Ideologies and Facebook, Aoife LenihanPart 2: Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging and Multimodality4. Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text-Messaging, Tereza Spilioti5. Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy, Yukiko Nishimura6. Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices, Carmen LeePart 3: Style and Stylization: Identity Play and Semiotic Invention7. Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild, Lisa Newon8. Ride Hard, Live Forever: Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians, Saija Peuronen9. Performing Girlhood Through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs, Carmel VaismanPart 4: Stance: Ideological Position-Taking and Social Categorization10. Stuff White People Like: Stance, Class, Race and Internet Commentary, Shana Walton and Alexandra Jaffe11. Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo-Sharing, Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski12. Orienting to Arab Orientalisms: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video, Elaine Chun and Keith WaltersPart 5: New Practices, Emerging Methodologies13. From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse, Jannis Androutsopoulos14. SMS4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland, Christa Dürscheid and Elisabeth Stark15. C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology and "Bodies Without Organs", Rodney JonesComment, Susan HerringIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Thurlow and Mroczek provide an intriguing look at how sociolinguistic topics are being explored in new media...this book will resonate with students, since these media dominate much of their lives, but also with seasoned scholars, since adults are the fastest-growing segment of new media users."—CHOICE

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