Digital Discourse Language in the New Media

by Thurlow, Crispin; Mroczek, Kristine

• ISBN13: 9780199795444
• ISBN10: 0199795444
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Digital Discourseoffers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply bringing new media sociolinguistics up to date, addressing current technologies like instant messaging, textmessaging, blogging, photo-sharing, mobile phones, gaming, social network sites, and video sharing. Chapters cover a range of communicative contexts (journalism, gaming, tourism, leisure, performance, public debate), communicators (professional and lay, young people and adults, intimates and groups), and languages (Irish, Hebrew, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, German, Greek, Arabic, and French). The volume is organized around topics of primary interest to sociolinguists, including genre, style and stance. With commentaries from the two most internationally recognized scholars of new media discourse (Naomi Baron and Susan Herring) and essays by well-established scholars and new voices in sociolinguistics, the volume will be more current, more diverse, and more thematically unified than any other collection on the topic.

Author Biography

Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Language and Communication at University of Washington (Bothell).

Kristine Mroczek is a doctoral candidate in Communication at University of Washington (Seattle).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xvii
Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics	p. xix
Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language
Voicing "Sexy Text": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal	p. 3
When Friends Who Talk Together Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication	p. 26
"Join Our Community of Translators": Language Ideologies and in Facebook	p. 48
Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging, and Multimodality
Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text Messaging	p. 67
Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy	p. 86
Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices	p. 110
Style and Stylization: Identity Play and Semiotic Invention
Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild	p. 131
"Ride Hard, Live Forever": Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians	p. 154
Performing Girlhood through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs	p. 177
Stance: Ideological Position Taking and Social Categorization
"Stuff White People Like": Stance, Class, Race, and Internet Commentary	p. 199
Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo Sharing	p. 220
Orienting to Arab Orientalisms: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video	p. 251
New Practices, Emerging Methodologies
From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse	p. 277
sms4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland	p. 299
C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology, and "Bodies without Organs"	p. 321
Commentary	p. 340
Index	p. 349
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