Language and the Internet

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Language and the Internet David Crystal investigates the nature of the impact which the Internet is making on language. There is ...

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Languageandthe Internet DAVID CRYSTAL ...

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Contents 1Alinguisticperspective Prefacevii 2ThemediumofNetspeak 3Findinganidentity 4Thelanguageofe-mail 5Thelanguageofchatgrou ...

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Preface In his book Abrief history of the future: the origins of the Internet, John Naughton comments:^1 The Internet is one of ...

viii Preface Remarks of this kind have grown since the mid-1990s. An empha- sis, which formerly was on technology, has shifted t ...

Preface ix age-range of Internet users (said to be 20-somethings). I am there- fore very happy to acknowledge the assistance at ...

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1 Alinguistic perspective Will the English-dominated Internet spell the end of other tongues? Quite e-vil: the mobile phone whis ...

2 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET casualties, and their specific questions raise a profusion of spec- tres. Do the relaxed standards o ...

Alinguistic perspective 3 computer (orhost) on one network to any host on any other. It de- veloped in the 1960s in the USA as a ...

4 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET only self-reflect; for those who do not, the self-descriptions of a ‘day in a netizen’s life’ are in ...

Alinguistic perspective 5 It is not the aim of this book to reflect on the consequences for individuals or for society of lives ...

6 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET language which distinguishes its members from those elsewhere: ‘That’s not how we say things round h ...

Alinguistic perspective 7 in literature), and a wide range of other styles of expression. Vari- eties are, in principle, systema ...

8 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET distinctive typography, page design, spacing, use of illus- trations, and colour; for example, the v ...