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 are represented, from Japanese, Greek, German and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese and African languages.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies.
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Editors’ Introduction
Section 1. Methods and Perspectives
Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses
Section 3. Digital Literacies
Section 4. Digital Communication in Public
Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives
5.1. The role of the body and space in digital multimodality, Elizabeth Keating
5.2. Second Life: language and virtual identity, Ashraf Abdullah
5.3. Online multiplayer games, Lisa Newon
5.4. Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication, Sage Lambert Graham
Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships
Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions
7.1. Social reading in a digital world, Naomi Baron
7.2. New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication, Susan Herring
7.3. Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts, Ruth Page
7.4. Surveillance, Rodney Jones
7.5. Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics Charles Ess
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