Language, Creativity and Humour Online Language and Digital Media Series

Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms. It introduces new digital genres and contexts, expanding existing research on computer mediated communication (CMC) and covering key concepts in research on linguistic creativity. The book presents original linguistic analyses of a variety of digital genres, including:

? Novelty Twitter accounts and political humour

? Tumblr Chats

? Amazon review parodies.

This timely book uncovers the linguistic and interactional mechanisms underlying various types of creative, playful, and humorous texts online. It is essential reading for students and researchers working in the areas of language and media, and language and communication.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Research on Linguistic Creativity Online

Chapter 3: Novelty Twitter Accounts

Chapter 4: Tumblr Chats

Chapter 5: Amazon Review Parodies

Chapter 6: Conclusions

Index

Camilla Vásquez is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida (USF), USA.