Caroline Tagg

Gebundenes Buch

Exploring Digital Communication

Language in Action

Beschreibung

This textbook covers real world issues pertaining to digital communication, and explores how linguistic research addresses these challenges. Using the 'back-to-front' structure of the Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series, the book is divided into three sections (Problems and Practices; Interventions; and Theory). The book also seeks to demystify any perceived divide between online and offline communication. Topics covered include text messaging, multiliteracies, and online writing communities. Additional features include tasks, along with a task commentary, a glossary and annotated further reading suggestions.

Autor

Caroline Tagg is lecturer in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham. Her publications include The Language of Social Media: identity and community on the internet (edited with Philip Seargeant, 2014) and The Discourse of Text Messaging (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780415524919
• ISBN-10: 0415524911
• Artikelnr.: 41023220

Rezensionen

"This book provides an insightful and wide-ranging examination of the nature of digital communication, and makes a cogent argument for why a focus on language can be particularly productive for understanding the impact that internet-based communications technologies are having on society." Philip Seargeant, The Open University, UK

"This book is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on language use and digital practices. Focusing on compelling examples taken from diverse forms of digital media, Tagg engages with important social issues ranging from privacy, to isolation, to the increasingly blurred boundaries between online and offline communication. Comprehensive in scope, erudite, and accessible in style, this

book will certainly be of interest to scholars and students of communication and language studies." Camilla Vásquez, University of South Florida, USA

"The innovative approach devised by the series editors will make this series very attractive to students, teacher educators, and even to a general readership, wanting to explore and understand the field of applied linguistics. The volumes in this series take as their starting point the everyday professional problems and issues that applied linguists seek to illuminate. The volumes are authoritatively written, using an engaging 'back-to'front' structure that moves from practical interests to the conceptual bases and theories that underpin applications of practice.' Anne Burns, Aston University, UK