Digital Discourse Language in the New Media Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Series

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply bringing new media sociolinguistics up to date, addressing current technologies like instant messaging, textmessaging, blogging, photo-sharing, mobile phones, gaming, social network sites, and video sharing. Chapters cover a range of communicative contexts (journalism, gaming, tourism, leisure, performance, public debate), communicators (professional and lay, young people and adults, intimates and groups), and languages (Irish, Hebrew, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, German, Greek, Arabic, and French). The volume is organized around topics of primary interest to sociolinguists, including genre, style and stance. With commentaries from the two most internationally recognized scholars of new media discourse (Naomi Baron and Susan Herring) and essays by well-established scholars and new voices in sociolinguistics, the volume will be more current, more diverse, and more thematically unified than any other collection on the topic.

Foreward. Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics. Part 1: Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language. 1. Voicing "Sexy Text": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal. 2. When Friends Who Talk Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication. 3. "Join Our Community of Translators" Language Ideologies and alt,iagt,Facebookalt,/iagt* Part 2: Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging and Multimodality. 4. Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text-Messaging. 5. Japanese alt,iagt,Keitaialt,/iagt, Novels and Ideologies of Literacy. 6. Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on alt,iagt,Facebookalt,/iagt,: Texts and Practices. Part 3: Style and Stylization: Identity Play and Semiotic Invention. 7. Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a alt,iagt,World of Warcraftalt,/iagt, Guild. 8. Ride Hard, Live Forever: Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians. 9. Performing Girlhood Through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs. Part 4: Stance: Ideological Position-Taking and Social Categorization. 10. alt,iagt,Stuff White People Likealt,/iagt,: Stance, Class, Race and Internet Commentary. 11. Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo-Sharing. 12. Orienting to Arab Orientalisms: Language, Race, and Humor in a alt,iagt,YouTubealt,/iagt, Video. Part 5: New Practices, Emerging Methodologies. 13. From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse. 14. SMS4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland. 15. C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology and "Bodies Without Organs". Comment. Index.

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).