Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media

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.

Author: Crispin Thurlow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/26/2011
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780199795444

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2012

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).

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