| Description |
ix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause -- 1. Cyberlanguage: What it is and what it does / Donna Gibbs -- 2. Metaphor and meaning: Values in a virtual world / Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause -- 3. Re(de)fining dictionaries: From paper to pixel / Scott Fitzgerald -- 4. Screen reading: Challenges of the new literacy / Jennifer Thurstun -- 5. Cyberseeking: Language and the quest for information / Juliet McLean -- 6. Negotiating the Web: Language, critical literacies and learning / Ross Todd -- 7. Connexions / Anne Cranny-Francis -- 8. Online on time: The language of Internet Relay Chat / Juliet Mar -- 9. Cyberself: Identity, language and stylisation on the Internet / Annette Wong -- 10. Critiquing <the> Internet 2000: Knowledge / language and freedom / Ray Archee -- 11. Cyberlines / Kerri-Lee Krause |
| Summary |
Cyberlines is an in-depth analysis of the Internet's distinctive language and culture. It argues that the exponential growth of Internet usage in the last decade is producing new languages, as well as new styles of communication and new cultures. It offers an exciting and comprehensive analysis of that fusion of linguistic, visual and technological dimensions which has come to characterise the world of the Internet, cyberspace and cyberlanguage |
| Analysis |
Cyberlanguage Internet |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communication and culture.
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Cyberspace.
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Internet -- Terminology.
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English language -- Terms and phrases.
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Internet Relay Chat -- Terminology.
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Internet users.
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Online chat groups -- Terminology.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Author |
Gibbs, Donna.
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Krause, Kerri-Lee Dawn.
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| LC no. |
2001430174 |
| ISBN |
1875408266 |
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