Digilect : the impact of infocommunication technology on language / / Ágnes Veszelszki

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819710703321
• Autore: Veszelszki Ágnes
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Saur, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 3-11-049713-1; 3-11-049911-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 pages)
• Collana: Knowledge & Information. Studies in Information Science
• Disciplina: 428.00785
• Soggetti: English language - Study and teaching - Computer-assisted instruction; Language and languages - Study and teaching - Technological innovations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Infocommunications and Digilect -- 2. Digilect as Language Variety -- 3. Characteristic Features of Digilect -- 4. Digilect (and its Effects) based on the Findings of Two Questionnaire Surveys -- 5. The Impact of Digilect on non-digital Media According to Corpus Analysis Findings -- 6. Summary and conclusions. Directions for further research -- Annex 1 -- Annex 2 -- Annex 3 -- Annex 4 -- Annex 5 -- Annex 6 -- Annex 7 -- Annex 8 -- Annex 9 -- Annex 10 -- Annex 11 -- Annex 12 -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The high degree of internet penetration and its social (and linguistic) effects evidently influence how people, and especially the highly susceptible younger generations, use language. The primary aim of the book is not only to identify the characteristic features of the digital language variety (this has already been done by several works) but to examine how digital communication affects the language of other mediums of communication: orality, handwritten texts, digitally created but not digitally perceived, that is printed texts, including in particular advertisements (which quickly respond to linguistic change). Naturally, the book presents the characteristics of the digital language variety ; (and coins the term digilect) but only to give a framework to the impact analysis. It is important to document changes in progress and thus direct attention to potential outcomes. The current linguistic change is different from previous ones primarily in its speed and form of spreading, and it not only brings innovative grammatical forms and writing/spelling solutions but may also have far-reaching cultural and educational consequences in the long run.