List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Introduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai 1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday 2 Metaphors of Information John Regan 3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami 4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis 5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya Hasan Index

Language as social semiotic

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”

Twitter - a microblogging service that enables users to post messages ("tweets") of up to 140 characters - supports a variety of communicative practices; participants use Twitter to converse with individuals, groups, and the public at large, so when conversations emerge, they are often experienced by broader audiences than just the interlocutors. This paper examines the practice of retweeting as a way by which participants can be "in a conversation." While retweeting has become a convention inside Twitter, participants retweet using different styles and for diverse reasons. We highlight how authorship, attribution, and communicative fidelity are negotiated in diverse ways. Using a series of case studies and empirical data, this paper maps out retweeting as a conversational practice.

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Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter

In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this is a revealing account of how the Internet is radically changing the way we use language. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to account for more recent phenomena, with a brand new chapter on blogging and instant messaging. Engaging and accessible, it will continue to fascinate anyone who has ever used the Internet.

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Language and the Internet

A sociolinguistics of globalization

PREFACE 1. Email to Your Brain: Language in an Online and Mobile World 2. Language Online: The Basics 3. Controlling the Volume: Everyone a Language Czar 4. Are Instant Messages Speech? The World of IM 5. My Best Day: Managing Buddies and Friends 6. Having Your Say: Blogs and Beyond 7. Going Mobile: Cell Phones in Context 8. Whatever: Is the Internet Destroying Language? 9. Greshams Ghost: Challenges to Written Culture 10. The People We Become: Costs of Being Always On

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Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World

Letters by Phone or Speech by Other Means: The Linguistics of Email.

Instant Messaging (IM) is becoming a mainstay for online one-to-one communication. Although IM is popularly described as a written version of informal speech, little empirical investigation of the ...

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See you Online: Gender Issues in College Student Use of Instant Messaging

Preface 1.Robin Hood's Retort 2.Legitimating Written English 3.Who Writes, Who Reads, and Why 4.Setting Standards 5.The Rise of English Comp 6.Commas and Canaries 7.What Remington Thought 8.Language at a Distance 9.Why the Jury's Still Out on Email 10.Epilogue: Destiny or Choice Notes Bibliography Index

Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation. We examine our findings in light of other statistical studies of texting and IM, and with respect to personal computer use in the United States that predates text messaging.

Naomi S. Baron

Papers

Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World

Letters by Phone or Speech by Other Means: The Linguistics of Email.

See you Online: Gender Issues in College Student Use of Instant Messaging

Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

Text Messaging and IM Linguistic Comparison of American College Data