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Author:   Crispin Thurlow (Associate Professor of Communication, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Washington) ,  Kristine Mroczek (Coctoral candidate in Communication, Coctoral candidate in Communication, University of Washington)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9780199795437

ISBN 10:   0199795436
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   17 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Naomi Baron: Foreward Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek: Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics Part 1: Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language 1: Lauren Squires: Voicing ""Sexy Text"": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal 2: Graham Jones, Bambi Schieffelin, and Rachel Smith: When Friends Who Talk Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication 3: Aoife Lenihan: ""Join Our Community of Translators"" Language Ideologies and Facebook Part 2: Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging and Multimodality 4: Tereza Spilioti: Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text-Messaging 5: Yukiko Nishimura: Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy 6: Carmen Lee: Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices Part 3: Style and Stylization: Identity Play and Semiotic Invention 7: Lisa Newon: Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild 8: Saija Peuronen: Ride Hard, Live Forever: Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians 9: Carmel Vaisman: Performing Girlhood Through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs Part 4: Stance: Ideological Position-Taking and Social Categorization 10: Shana Walton and Alexandra Jaffe: Stuff White People Like: Stance, Class, Race and Internet Commentary 11: Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski: Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo-Sharing 12: Elaine Chun and Keith Walters: Orienting to Arab Orientalisms: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video Part 5: New Practices, Emerging Methodologies 13: Jannis Androutsopoulos: From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse 14: Christa Dürscheid and Elisabeth Stark: SMS4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland 15: Rodney Jones: C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology and ""Bodies Without Organs"" Susan Herring: Comment Index"

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<br> Thurlow and Mroczek provide an intriguing look at how sociolinguistic topics are being explored in new media...this book will resonate with students, since these media dominate much of their lives, but also with seasoned scholars, since adults are the fastest-growing segment of new media users. --CHOICE<p><br>

Author Information

Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Language and Communication at University of Washington (Bothell). Kristine Mroczek is a doctoral candidate in Communication at University of Washington (Seattle).

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