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The Influence of Computers, the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication on Everyday English
Computers and the Internet gave rise to the emergence of computer-mediated communication (CMC). The Influence of Computers, the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication on Everyday English focuses on the use of English in connection with computers and the Internet and on its influences on everyday English by analysing the dispersal of new meanings of words, neologisms, features of CMC and new metaphors. The intention is to show the computer- and Internet-related impact on the English language from several perspectives and to take several ways into consideration in which the Internet and CMC are changing language use and to evaluate this influence -- at least as far as this is possible.
Conceptions in the Code
Through an analysis of copyright in a digital context, Stefan Larsson ́s Conceptions in the Code explains the role that metaphor plays in the law's handling of technological change. It makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis as well as conceptual metaphor theory.
The Language of Pop Culture
This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks. The book features examples from a dynamic range of pop culture registers, including lyrics, the language of fictional TV series, comics, and musical subcultures, as a means of both providing a rigorous and robust description of these forms through the lens of linguistic study but also in outlining methodological issues involved in applying linguistic approaches. The volume also explores the didactic potential of pop culture, looking at the implementation of pop culture traditions in language learning settings. This collection offers unique insights into the interface of linguistic study and the broader paradigm of pop culture scholarship, making this an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, English language, media studies, cultural studies, and discourse analysis.
Pragmatic Syntax
Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the orthodoxy of linguistic theorizing for the last 50 years, which has insisted that languages have to be characterized in terms that make little or no reference to the dynamics of language use. This orthodox view fails to fit languages in which the verb has to be at the end of the clause - which encompasses more than half of the world's languages. Thus, as this book shows, these languages remain very problematic for conventional theories. Using a mixture of corpus methods, sentence structure analysis, prosody and psycholinguistic theory, Kiaer redresses this imbalance. The data features both Korean and English example and it functions as one of the very first general introductions to Dynamic Syntax available.
Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval
This book covers anaphora resolution for the English language from a linguistic and computational point of view. First, a definition of anaphors that applies to linguistics as well as information technology is given. On this foundation, all types of anaphors and their characteristics for English are outlined. To examine how frequent each type of anaphor is, a corpus of different hypertexts has been established and analysed with regard to anaphors. The most frequent type are non-finite clause anaphors - a type which has never been investigated so far. Therefore, the potential of non-finite clause anaphors are further explored with respect to anaphora resolution. After presenting the fundamentals of computational anaphora resolution and its application in text retrieval, rules for resolving non-finite clause anaphors are established. Therefore, this book shows that a truly interdisciplinary approach can achieve results which would not have been possible otherwise. Open Access: In July 2019, this volume was retroactively turned into an Open Access publication thanks to the support of the Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik. https://www.linguistik.de/
Face Work and Social Media
On social media platforms - such as Facebook and Twitter, message boards, blogs, and commentaries - users interact as if they know each other personally. Malicious verbal behavior is found next to clapping and kissing emoticons, both indicative of users' relational work strategies. This book contains 17 papers that examine 'face work' in social media - theoretical reflections, as well as corpus-based studies - thus opening the way to rethink linguistic pragmatics in computer-mediated communication. (Series: Hildesheimer Contributions to Media Research / Hildesheimer Beitrage zur Medienforschung - Vol. 2) [Subject: Sociology, Media Studies, Communication, Computer Technology]
Waffenbrüder im Streit
Im Nahostkonflikt wurden verhandlungsbereite Fraktionen auf der arabischen Seite von radikalen Störern aus den eigenen Reihen an einer Konfliktlösung mit Israel gehindert. Diesen internen Streit untersucht Manuel Winkelkotte anhand der palästinensischen Nationalbewegung als einen Kampf um die Vorherrschaft von einer Fraktion. In seiner historisch-vergleichenden Studie zeigt er, dass dieser symbolische Kampf vorrangig von der Akkumulation und Monopolisierung von Kriegercharisma bestimmt wurde. Dabei wird die Nationalbewegung nach Pierre Bourdieu als ein politisches Feld definiert, auf dem die Fraktionen dazu bereit waren, sich gegenseitig als Waffenbrüder anzuerkennen, und die mutigste Fr...
Neografie in der computervermittelten Kommunikation des Spanischen
In der digitalisierten Gesellschaft spielt das geschriebene Wort wieder eine zentrale Rolle in der Alltagskommunikation. Das Auftreten alternativer Schreibweisen (Neografien) in der computervermittelten Kommunikation ist daher keineswegs überraschend. Dieser Band untersucht Neografien, die von spanischen Nutzern im Chat verwendet werden. Dabei treten interessante Parallelen zu Strategien zutage, die teils bereits in der Schriftsprachgeschichte, teils in anderen Schriftsystemen zur Anwendung kamen bzw. noch kommen. Es zeigt sich außerdem, dass die Neografien von einer Vielzahl der Nutzer auf die gleiche oder zumindest ähnliche Weise verwendet werden, wodurch sie eine gruppenidentitätsstiftende Funktion erhalten. Der Band bietet Studierenden, Forschenden und Lehrenden der hispanistischen Linguistik einen umfassenden Überblick über die von spanischen Chattern verwendeten Neografien und ist auch für angehende Spanischlehrende von Interesse, da die untersuchten Alternativschreibungen ebenfalls im Fremdsprachenunterricht thematisiert werden sollten.
Trans-Americanity
In this book the author critiques the work of various writers within the framework of a globalized study of the Americas.
East African Literature
East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions is a wide-ranging collection of essays by seasoned and younger literary critics based in universities across the eastern region of Africa. The contributors offer illuminating criticism on issues of gender, sexuality, historiography, stylistics and narratology in representative works by writers such as: Ngugi, Okot p'Bitek, Julius Ocwinyo, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Ebrahim Hussein, Ben Mtobwa, M. G. Vassanji, Elieshi Lema, Rebeka Njau, Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, Ken Walibora, Katini Mwachofi, Margaret Ogola, Jared Angira, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, Dagniachew Worku and Nuruddin Farah. Transcribed works by popular oral artists working in major ver...
