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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Crystal, David, 1941- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2006
Edición:2nd ed
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.