Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication</em> 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: </p><p>• Methods and perspectives </p><p>• Language resources, genres, and discourses</p><p>• Digital literacies </p><p>• Digital communication in public </p><p>• Digital selves and online–offline lives </p><p>• Communities, networks, relationships </p><p>• New debates and further directions.</p><p>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 is represented, from Japanese, Greek, German, and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese, and African languages. </p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics, and media and communication studies.</p> <p>List of figures</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Contributors</p><p>Editors’ Introduction</p><p><strong>Section 1. Methods and Perspectives</strong></p><p>Approaches to language variation</p><p>Network analysis</p><p>Digital ethnography</p><p>Multimodal analysis<br> </p><p><strong>Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses</strong></p><p>Digital genres and processes of remediation</p><p>Style, creativity and play</p><p>Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication</p><p>Digital discourses: a critical perspective<br> </p><p><strong>Section 3. Digital Literacies</strong></p><p>Digital media and literacy development</p><p>Vernacular literacy: orthography and literacy practices</p><p>Texting and language learning<br> </p><p><strong>Section 4. Digital Communication in Public</strong></p><p>Digital media in workplace interactions</p><p>Digital advertising</p><p>Corporate blogging and corporate social media</p><p>Twitter: design, discourse, and the implications of public text<br> </p><p><strong>Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives</strong></p><p>The role of the body and space in digital multimodality</p><p>Second Life: language and virtual identity</p><p>Online multiplayer games</p><p>Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication</p><p><strong>Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships</strong></p><p>Online communities and communities of practice</p><p>Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network</p><p>YouTube: language and discourse practices in participatory culture</p><p>Translocality</p><p><strong>Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions</strong></p><p>Social reading in a digital world</p><p>New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication</p><p>Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts</p><p>Surveillance</p><p>Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics </p><p><em>Index</em></p>