ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to outline a range of evolving media developments with a view to arriving at a tentative understanding of some of the concerns facing semioticians, media linguists, and communication scholars in the immediate to mid-term future. It addresses some of the ramifications and implications developments. The chapter seeks to explain some of the meaning of language and media, taking into account recent and evolving trends in the digital economies sector and in the world of late global capitalism. It focuses on newly evolving communicative situations and participants. The chapter explores media language and linguistics in an age of digitally enabled where "digital practices quite habitually localize the global" and where paralinguistic and particularly gestural and neuro-transmitted interaction can be expected to move from the margins to the core of research activity. It deals with the potential risks and ideological implications entailed by the future modes and media.
