Language and the Internet

The language of virtual worlds 189 (cf. p. 90) for correcting some kinds of mistyping, which takes the form:s/oldstring/newstrin ...

190 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET features more than others – using unusual ASCII symbols, for ex- ample, or comic smiley sequences. ...

The language of virtual worlds 191 that conventional truth-descriptions cannot manage, giving valid- ity to utterances which wou ...

192 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET surveysofrecentdecades;everymajorcorpusnowcontainsasignif- icant amount of conversational data, an ...

The language of virtual worlds 193 who would have to be approached, if it were found necessary to ob- tain permission from the ‘ ...

194 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Cherny did with her fellow-players) or via e-mail, and ask this character for permission to quote ...

7ThelanguageoftheWeb ‘The vision I have for the Web is about anything being potentially connected with anything.’ This observati ...

196 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET many of the features of typing style have had an influence on the word-processing age. Handwritten ...

The language of the Web 197 attract the attention and disturb any process of predictable reading through the screen in a convent ...

198 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET varieties of written expression are legal, religious, journalistic, lit- erary, and scientific tex ...

The language of the Web 199 times must have presented similar difficulties). Scrolling down is bound to interfere with our abili ...

200 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The size of the screen has also exercised a major influence on the kind of language used, regardle ...

The language of the Web 201 Certain defining properties of traditional written language (p. 25) are also fundamentally altered b ...

202 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Hypertext and interactivity Probably the most important use of colour in a well-designed Web site ...

The language of the Web 203 As Tim Berners-Lee points out,^11 a link does not imply any en- dorsements: ‘Free speech in hypertex ...

204 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET structure are shaped by communicative ends, rather than technological means. We, as users, cannot ...

The language of the Web 205 the Web, and professional designers have been scathing about the untutored typographical hotchpotche ...

206 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET There are other linguistic consequences of Web innocence, when we consider that people are produci ...

The language of the Web 207 pagesdirectly,itisperfectlypossibletodownloadadocumenttoour own computer, change the text, then uplo ...

208 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Because reactions to an interactive site are easy to make, they are often made. The linguistic cha ...