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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of language-focused research on digital communication, taking stock and registering the latest trends that set the agenda for future developments in this thriving and fast-moving field. The contributors are all leading figures or established authorities in their areas, covering a wide range of topics and concerns in the following seven sections:
- Methods and perspectives
- Language resources, genres, and discourses
- Digital literacies
- Digital communication in public
- Digital selves and online-offline lives
- Communities, networks, relationships
- New debates and further directions.
This volume showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues and, at the same time, reflects upon and engages with cutting-edge research and new directions for study (as emerging within social media). A wide range of languages is represented, from Japanese, Greek, German, and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese, and African languages.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics, and media and communication studies.
List of contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Editors' Introduction
Section 1. Methods and Perspectives
Approaches to language variation
Network analysis
Digital ethnography
Multimodal analysis
Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses
Digital genres and processes of remediation
Style, creativity and play
Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication
Digital discourses: a critical perspective
Section 3. Digital Literacies
Digital media and literacy development
Vernacular literacy: orthography and literacy practices
Texting and language learning
Section 4. Digital Communication in Public
Digital media in workplace interactions
Digital advertising
Corporate blogging and corporate social media
Twitter: design, discourse, and the implications of public text
Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives
The role of the body and space in digital multimodality
Second Life: language and virtual identity
Online multiplayer games
Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication
Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships
Online communities and communities of practice
Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network
YouTube: language and discourse practices in participatory culture
Translocality
Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions
Social reading in a digital world
New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication
Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts
Surveillance
Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics
Index
About the author
Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, King's College London.
Tereza Spilioti is Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at Cardiff University, UK.
Contributors: Ashraf R. Abdullah, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Jo Angouri, Naomi S. Baron, Erika Darics, Charles M. Ess, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Sage Lambert Graham, Rebecca Hagelmoser, Susan C. Herring, Theresa Heyd, Lars Hinrichs, Josh Iorio, Carey Jewitt, Rodney H. Jones, Elizabeth Keating, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Nenagh Kemp, Michele Knobel, Samu Kytölä, Colin Lankshear, Carmen Lee, Lisa Newon, Yukiko Nishimura, Ruth Page, John C. Paolillo, Cornelius Puschmann, Philip Seargeant, Tereza Spilioti, Lauren Squires, Caroline Tagg, Jana Tereick, Piia Varis, Sam Waldron, Clare Wood.
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on digital communication. It will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies.
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"This book brings together the insights of an outstanding group of researchers in the area of digital communication, drawn from a range of linguistic fields. The approaches surveyed range from network analysis, and digital ethnography, to multimodal discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. It is key reading for anyone aiming to understand digital cultures, and computer-mediated communication." - Michele Zappavigna, The University of New South Wales, Australia
"This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of cutting-edge research, drawing on data from many different languages and varied contexts. The collection addresses current trends as well as methodological challenges within the field of computer-mediated communication in linguistics and will provide novices and seasoned scholars with a rich resource for future studies." - Miriam A. Locher, University of Basel, Switzerland
"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues, including discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary studies...the handbook is a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of digital communication, which can intrigue and inspire further fruitful research. Readers can surely benefit greatly from this comprehensive collection of research; therefore, I highly recommend it for anyone aiming to understand digital cultures and computer-mediated communication." - Zsuzsanna Zsubrinszky, Budapest Business School, LINGUIST List
