Language and the internet /
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 wid...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
