Language and the Internet

Alinguistic perspective 9 theInternet,throughtheuseofsoundclips,films,andvideo;butthe use of speech will undoubtedly grow as tec ...

10 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET contains. We then need to describe the salient linguistic features of each situation, and to identi ...

Alinguistic perspective 11 my e-address, some of which had attachments that were indistin- guishable from a Web page in their li ...

12 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET ofnewsgroupson Usenet, covering a vast number of topics, provide another. Another is themailing lis ...

Alinguistic perspective 13 what some commentators have calledmetaworlds.^14 A range of sub- genres, with differing emphases, tec ...

14 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET here must be whether the Web can be said to have any coherence, as a linguistic variety, and whethe ...

Alinguistic perspective 15 to communicate via e-mail, of how to talk in chatgroups, of how to construct an effective Web page, o ...

16 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET register... [an] emergent register’.^18 Certainly the participants themselves seem to be aware that ...

Alinguistic perspective 17 ingenuity in their usage, accordingly. At the same time, everyone is aware that too much idiosyncrasy ...

18 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET suffi xalso has a receptive element, including ‘listening and reading’. The first of these points h ...

Alinguistic perspective 19 interest to note the way in which salient features of Netspeak, taken from one or other of its situat ...

20 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET everyday speech, especially to handle the punctuation present in an electronic address. For example ...

Alinguistic perspective 21 A similar ludic trend applies to the symbol @, now the universal link between recipient and address. ...

22 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET play with terms in search of eye-catching effects, so it is not surpris- ing to find e-motivated le ...

Alinguistic perspective 23 on language in general and on their own language in particular – as the quotations at the beginning o ...

2ThemediumofNetspeak The Internet is an electronic, global, and interactive medium, and each of these properties has consequence ...

The medium of Netspeak 25 writers have called Internet language ‘written speech’;^1 andWired Styleadvises: ‘Write the way people ...

26 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Table 2.1.Differences between speech and writing (after Crystal,1995) Speech Writing Speech is tim ...

The medium of Netspeak 27 Table 2.1. (cont.) Speech Writing Many words and constructions are characteristic of (especially info ...

28 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Table 2.1. (cont.) Speech Writing Unique features of speech include most of the prosody. The many ...