Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication

Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London. She is on the Editorial Board of: Narrative Inquiry: 1999-; Language@Internet: 2005-; Journal of Greek Linguistics: 2009-; Reading Research Quarterly :2010-; Discourse, Context and Media: 2011-; Journal of Sociolinguistics: 2012-. Tereza Spilioti is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication at Kingston University (London) where she has introduced the teaching of computer-mediated communication into the BA English Language and Communication and designed a new module on ‘Discourse and Social Media’ offered to both undergraduate and postgraduate students (MA Media and Communication).

• AcknowledgementsContributorsEditors’ IntroductionSection 1. Methods and Perspectives Approaches to language variation, Lars Hinrichs Network analysis, John Paolillo Digital ethnography, Piia Varis Multimodal analysis, Carey Jewitt Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses Digital genres and processes of remediation, Theresa Heyd Style, creativity and play, Yukiko Nishimura Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication, Carmen Lee Digital discourses: a critical perspective Tereza Spilioti Section 3. Digital Literacies Digital media and literacy development, Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear Vernacular literacy: orthography and literacy practices, Josh Iorio Texting and language learning, Clare Wood, Nenagh Kemp & Sam Waldron Section 4. Digital Communication in Public Digital media in workplace interactions, Erika Darics Digital advertising, Helen Kelly-Holmes Corporate blogging and corporate social media, Cornelius Puschmann and Rebecca Hagelmoser Twitter: design, discourse, and the implications of public text, Lauren Squires Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives5.1. The role of the body and space in digital multimodality, Elizabeth Keating5.2. Second Life: language and virtual identity, Ashraf Abdullah5.3. Online multiplayer games, Lisa Newon5.4. Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication, Sage Lambert Graham Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships Online communities and communities of practice, Jo Angouri Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network, Caroline Tagg & Philip Seargeant YouTube: language and discourse practices in participatory culture, Jannis Androutsopoulos and Jana Tereick Translocality, Samu Kytola Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions7.1. Social reading in a digital world, Naomi Baron7.2. New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication, Susan Herring7.3. Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts, Ruth Page7.4. Surveillance, Rodney Jones7.5. Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics Charles Ess

"This book brings together the insights of an outstanding group of researchers in the area of digital communication, drawn from a range of linguistic fields. The approaches surveyed range from network analysis, and digital ethnography, to multimodal discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. It is key reading for anyone aiming to understand digital cultures, and computer-mediated communication." - Michele Zappavigna, The University of New South Wales, Australia"This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of cutting-edge research, drawing on data from many different languages and varied contexts. The collection addresses current trends as well as methodological challenges within the field of computer-mediated communication in linguistics and will provide novices and seasoned scholars with a rich resource for future studies." - Miriam A. Locher, University of Basel, Switzerland"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues, including discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary studies...the handbook is a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of digital communication, which can intrigue and inspire further fruitful research. Readers can surely benefit greatly from this comprehensive collection of research; therefore, I highly recommend it for anyone aiming to understand digital cultures and computer-mediated communication." - Zsuzsanna Zsubrinszky, Budapest Business School, LINGUIST List