TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crystal,David
TI  - Language and the internet
SN  - 9780511487002 (ebook)
AV  - P98.5.I57 C79 2006
U1  - 410/.285 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Computational linguistics
KW  - Internet
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 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
N2  - 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 widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this is a revealing account of how the Internet is radically changing the way we use language. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to account for more recent phenomena, with a brand new chapter on blogging and instant messaging. Engaging and accessible, it will continue to fascinate anyone who has ever used the Internet
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487002
ER  -