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oapen-20.500.12657-862972023-12-23T02:35:26Z Johnson and the Internet Crystal, David data, Johnson, computer-mediated speech, digital, communications, Netspeak bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library & information sciences::GLP Archiving, preservation & digitisation bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies Professor David Crystal discusses Computer-Mediated Speech (CMC), or Netspeak. In this short book, he presents a discursive timeline of the linguistic quirks of digital interactivity. From framing to flaming, from emoticons to text speak, can we ever communicate effectively in our digital realms? The book is based on a lecture given as part of the Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures, established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of his wife, Dr Hilda Hulme. The lectures are on the subject of English literature and relate to one of ‘the three fields in which Dr Hulme specialised, namely Shakespeare, language in Elizabethan drama, and the nineteenth-century novel’. This lecture by Professor David Crystal was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 2005. 2023-12-21T16:36:04Z 2023-12-21T16:36:04Z 2005 book ONIX_20231221_9781913739003_16 9781913739003 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86297 eng Hilda Hulme Lecture Series application/pdf n/a 9781913739003.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/0620.9781913739003 10.14296/0620.9781913739003 4af45bb1-d463-422d-9338-fa2167dddc34 9781913739003 University of London Press London open access
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Professor David Crystal discusses Computer-Mediated Speech (CMC), or Netspeak. In this short book, he presents a discursive timeline of the linguistic quirks of digital interactivity. From framing to flaming, from emoticons to text speak, can we ever communicate effectively in our digital realms? The book is based on a lecture given as part of the Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures, established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of his wife, Dr Hilda Hulme. The lectures are on the subject of English literature and relate to one of ‘the three fields in which Dr Hulme specialised, namely Shakespeare, language in Elizabethan drama, and the nineteenth-century novel’. This lecture by Professor David Crystal was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 2005.
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