Digital discourse : language in the new media /

by Thurlow, Crispin ; Mroczek, Kristine R .

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BookSeries: Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011Description: xliv, 364 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199795437 (hc); 9780199795444 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0199795444.Subject(s): Sociolinguistics

| Social media

| Digital media

| Technological innovations -- Social aspects

| Discourse analysis -- Social aspects

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language -- 1.Voicing "Sexy Text" Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal / Lauren Squires -- 2.When Friends Who Talk Together Stalk Together Online Gossip as Metacommunication / Rachel E. Smith -- 3."Join Our Community of Translators": Languagen Ideologies and/in Facebook / Aoife Lenihan -- pt. TWO Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging, and Multimodality -- 4.Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text Messaging / Tereza Spilioti -- 5.Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy / Yukiko Nishimura -- 6.Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices / Carmen K. M. Lee -- pt. THREE Style and Stylization: Identity Play and Semiotic Invention -- 7.Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild / Lisa Newon -- 8."Ride Hard, live Forever": Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians / Saija Peuronen -- 9.Performing Girlhood through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs / Carmel Vaisman -- pt. FOUR Stance: Ideological Position Taking and Social Categorization -- 10."StuffWhite People like": Stance, Class, Race, and Internet Commentary / Alexandra Jaffe -- 11.Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo Sharing / Adam Jaworski -- 12.Orienting to Arab Orientalisms: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video / Keith Walters -- pt. FIVE New Practices, Emerging Methodologies -- 13.From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- 14.sms4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland / Elisabeth Stark -- 15.C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology, and "Bodies without Organs" / Rodney H. Jones.