English in computer-mediated communication : variation, representation, and change / / edited by Lauren Squires

• Pubblicazione: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 380 pages)
• Disciplina: 428.00285
• Soggetto topico: Communication - Computer networks; English language - Data processing; Sociolinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SquiresLauren (Linguist)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Variation, representation, and change in English in CMC / Squires, Lauren -- I. Code and Variety -- Modular repertoires in English-using social networks: A study of language choice in the networks of adult Facebook users / Hinrichs, Lars -- Tweets as graffiti: What the reconstruction of Vulgar Latin can tell us about Black Twitter / Jones, Taylor -- "Ets jast ma booooooooooooo": Social meanings of Scottish accents on YouTube / Cutler, Cecelia -- II. Contact, Spread, and Innovation -- Global varieties of English gone digital: Orthographic and semantic variation in digital Nigerian Pidgin / Heyd, Theresa -- Virtual meatspace: Word formation and deformation in cyberpunk discussions / Garley, Matt / Slade, Benjamin -- Language change because Twitter? Factors motivating innovative uses of because across the English-speaking Twittersphere / Bohmann, Axel -- Grammatical feature frequencies of English on Twitter in Finland / Coats, Steven -- III. Style and Identity -- Stylistic uniformity and variation online and on-screen: A case study of The Real Housewives / Squires, Lauren -- Exploring stylistic co-variation on Twitter: The case of DH / Callier, Patrick -- Who I am and who I want to be: Variation and representation in a messaging platform / Childs, Becky -- IV. Mode and Medium -- Electronically-mediated Englishes: Synchronicity revisited / Bieswanger, Markus -- Social factors and lexical frequency influencing English adjective gradation in speech and CMC / LaFave, Nathan -- Implications of attitudes about non-standard English on interactional structure in the computer-mediated workplace: A story of two modes / Iorio, Josh -- "At least I'm not Chinese, gay, or female": Marginalized voices in World of Warcraft / Collister, Lauren B. -- Index
• Titolo autorizzato: English in computer-mediated communication
• ISBN: 3-11-048843-4; 3-11-049081-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155411203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in English linguistics ; ; Volume 93.