Internet Linguistics by Crystal, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Author Title Page Copyright Contents Preface 1. Linguistic perspectives

Misconceptions Terminological caution Research challenges

2. The Internet as a medium

Speech vs writing The Internet as a mixed medium Differences with speech Differences with writing A new medium

3. A microexample: Twitter

Methodological issues Content issues Grammatical issues Pragmatic issues A variety in evolution

4. Language change

Vocabulary Orthography Grammar Pragmatics Styles

5. A multilingual Internet

Policy and technology Methodological issues

6. Applied Internet linguistics

Problem areas The focus on ambiguity A lexicopedic approach The centrality of semantics An illustration Other aspects

7. A forensic case study

An extract A case study Method Results and discussion

8. Towards a theoretical Internet linguistics

Relevance and indexing New directions

9. Research directions and activities

1 Debating roles (Chapter 1) 2 Audio issues (Chapter 2) 3 Distinctive forms (Chapter 2) 4 Testing hypotheses (Chapters 2 and 3) 5 Punctuation (Chapter 4) 6 Spam (Chapter 4) 7 Online translation (Chapter 5) 8 Localization (Chapter 6) 9 Taxonomy (Chapter 6) 10 Semantic targeting (Chapters 6 and 7)

Notes Further reading Index

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