Always on - Language in an Online and Mobile World

Zusatztext Naomi Baron artfully combines historical surveys, research summaries, and findings of her own to give us a comprehensive, insightful, and thoughtful handbook for understanding electronic communication-what it is, how it works, and how it's changing our lives and our interpersonal relationships. Informationen zum Autor Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics Emerita at American University in Washington, DC. A leading authority on language use in the age of the computer, she has studied instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, multitasking behavior, and Facebook usage by American college students. She is the author of six books, including Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading, and she has been interviewed on ¨Good Morning America,¨ ¨20/20,¨ Fox 5, CNN, Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and more. Klappentext Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways you might suppose. Always On draws upon a decade of research to reveal how instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and internet search functions are reshaping social interaction and written culture. Zusammenfassung Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways you might suppose. Always On draws upon a decade of research to reveal how instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and internet search functions are reshaping social interaction and written culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1.: Email to Your Brain: Language in an Online and Mobile World 2.: Language Online: The Basics 3.: Controlling the Volume: Everyone a Language Czar 4.: Are Instant Messages Speech? The World of IM 5.: My Best Day: Managing "Buddies" and "Friends" 6.: Having Your Say: Blogs and Beyond 7.: Going Mobile: Cell Phones in Context 8.: "Whatever": Is the Internet Destroying Language? 9.: Gresham's Ghost: Challenges to Written Culture 10.: The People We Become: Costs of Being Always On ...

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Baron, Naomi S. Baron
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199735440
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973544-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, COMPUTERS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Social interaction, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, HOUSE & HOME / General, Sociolinguistics, Digital lifestyle, Communication Studies, Dialect, slang & jargon, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Social and ethical issues, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, Dialect, slang and jargon