ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on digital communication, taking stock and registering the latest trends that set the agenda for future developments in this thriving and fast moving field. The contributors are all leading figures or established authorities in their areas, covering a wide range of topics and concerns in the following seven sections:

• Methods and Perspectives;

• Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses;

• Digital Literacies;

• Digital Communication in Public;

• Digital Selves and Online-Offline Lives;

• Communities, Networks, Relationships;

• New debates and Further directions.

This volume showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues and, at the same time, reflects upon and engages with cutting edge research and new directions for study (as emerging within social media). A wide range of languages are represented, from Japanese, Greek, German and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese and African languages.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies.

part |68 pages

Methods and perspectives

part |64 pages

Language resources, genres, and discourses

part |46 pages

Digital literacies

part |62 pages

Digital communication in public

chapter |18 pages

Twitter

Design, discourse, and the implications of public text

part |64 pages

Digital selves and online–offline lives

part |68 pages

Communities, networks, relationships

chapter |17 pages

YouTube

Language and discourse practices in participatory culture

chapter |18 pages

Translocality

part |28 pages

New debates and further directions

chapter |5 pages

Moving between the big and the small

Identity and interaction in digital contexts

chapter |4 pages

Surveillance

chapter |5 pages

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Media, literacies, identities, politics