Alphabet to Email

<p>In <em>Alphabet to Email</em> Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality.<br>Drawing together strands of thinking about writing speech pedagogy technology and globalization Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English.<br><em>Alphabet to Email</em> will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going.</p>