<p><strong>"This book brings together the insights of an outstanding group of researchers in the area of digital communication, drawn from a range of linguistic fields. The approaches surveyed range from network analysis, and digital ethnography, to multimodal discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. It is key reading for anyone aiming to understand digital cultures, and computer-mediated communication."</strong> - Michele Zappavigna, <i>The University of New South Wales, Australia</i></p><p><strong>"This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of cutting-edge research, drawing on data from many different languages and varied contexts. The collection addresses current trends as well as methodological challenges within the field of computer-mediated communication in linguistics and will provide novices and seasoned scholars with a rich resource for future studies."</strong> - Miriam A. Locher, <em>University of Basel, Switzerland</em></p><p><strong><em>"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication </em>showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues, including discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary studies...the handbook is a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of digital communication, which can intrigue and inspire further fruitful research. Readers can surely benefit greatly from this comprehensive collection of research; therefore, I highly recommend it for anyone aiming to understand digital cultures and computer-mediated communication."</strong><em> -</em> Zsuzsanna Zsubrinszky<em>,</em> Budapest Business School<em>, LINGUIST List</em></p>

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on digital communication, taking stock and registering the latest trends that set the agenda for future developments in this thriving and fast moving field. The contributors are all leading figures or established authorities in their areas, covering a wide range of topics and concerns in the following seven sections: • Methods and Perspectives;• Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses; • Digital Literacies; • Digital Communication in Public;• Digital Selves and Online-Offline Lives;• Communities, Networks, Relationships;• New debates and Further directions. This volume showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues and, at the same time, reflects upon and engages with cutting edge research and new directions for study (as emerging within social media). A wide range of languages are represented, from Japanese, Greek, German and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese and African languages. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies.
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AcknowledgementsContributorsEditors’ IntroductionSection 1. Methods and Perspectives Approaches to language variation, Lars Hinrichs Network analysis, John Paolillo Digital ethnography, Piia Varis Multimodal analysis, Carey Jewitt Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses Digital genres and processes of remediation, Theresa Heyd Style, creativity and play, Yukiko Nishimura Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication, Carmen Lee Digital discourses: a critical perspective Tereza Spilioti Section 3. Digital Literacies Digital media and literacy development, Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear Vernacular literacy: orthography and literacy practices, Josh Iorio Texting and language learning, Clare Wood, Nenagh Kemp & Sam Waldron Section 4. Digital Communication in Public Digital media in workplace interactions, Erika Darics Digital advertising, Helen Kelly-Holmes Corporate blogging and corporate social media, Cornelius Puschmann and Rebecca Hagelmoser Twitter: design, discourse, and the implications of public text, Lauren Squires Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives5.1. The role of the body and space in digital multimodality, Elizabeth Keating5.2. Second Life: language and virtual identity, Ashraf Abdullah5.3. Online multiplayer games, Lisa Newon5.4. Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication, Sage Lambert Graham Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships Online communities and communities of practice, Jo Angouri Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network, Caroline Tagg & Philip Seargeant YouTube: language and discourse practices in participatory culture, Jannis Androutsopoulos and Jana Tereick Translocality, Samu Kytola Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions7.1. Social reading in a digital world, Naomi Baron7.2. New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication, Susan Herring7.3. Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts, Ruth Page7.4. Surveillance, Rodney Jones7.5. Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics Charles Ess
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415642491
Publisert
2015-07-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
932 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, 05
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
434

Biographical note

Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London. She is on the Editorial Board of: Narrative Inquiry: 1999-; Language@Internet: 2005-; Journal of Greek Linguistics: 2009-; Reading Research Quarterly :2010-; Discourse, Context and Media: 2011-; Journal of Sociolinguistics: 2012-.

Tereza Spilioti is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication at Kingston University (London) where she has introduced the teaching of computer-mediated communication into the BA English Language and Communication and designed a new module on ‘Discourse and Social Media’ offered to both undergraduate and postgraduate students (MA Media and Communication).