17.3057, Books: Sociolinguistics: Hinrichs

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Date: 17-Oct-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Codeswitching on the Web: Hinrichs 

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:13:23
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Codeswitching on the Web: Hinrichs 

Title: Codeswitching on the Web 
Subtitle: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 147  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20147 

Author: Lars Hinrichs

Hardback: ISBN: 9027253900 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253900 Pages: 302 Price: U.S. $ 138.00

Abstract:

Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this
study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in
computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered
perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in
creole studies about the creole continuum. The book will likewise be useful
to students of computer-mediated communication, the use and development of
non-standardized languages, language ecology, and codeswitching. 

The central methodological issue in this study is codeswitching in written
language, a neglected area of study at the moment since most literature in
codeswitching research is based on spoken data. The three analytical
chapters present the data in a critical discussion of established and more
recent theoretical approaches to codeswitching. 

Fields that will benefit from this book include interactional
sociolinguistics, creole studies, English as a world language,
computer-mediated discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  vii  
Abbreviations  ix  
1. Introduction  1-31  
2. The creole continuum and CMC  33-41  
3. How the situation determines code choice - a "simple, almost one-to-one
relationship"  43-59  
4. Giving contextualization cues: How writers provide context information
through code choice  61-83  
5. Codeswitching and identity: How writers describe themselves through code
choice  85-132  
6. Summary of the analysis and discussion  133-137  
7. Conclusions  139-156  
References  157-168  
Appendix  169-278  
Notes  279-298  
Index  299-301  

"The research reported in the volume is extremely innovative and represents
a theoretical and methodological contribution to several areas of current
interest: computer-mediated communication (especially in the context of a
country where computers are less accessible), the use and development of
vernacular language varieties in writing, the study of codeswitching, in
particular written codeswitching. This book is of interest to researchers
in all of these areas, and coherently brings the topics together with
excellent and insightful discussions of the literature. In addition it
makes a valuable theoretical contribution to the area of creole studies and
the longstanding theoretical debates about the 'creole continuum'." 
Mark Sebba, Lancaster University 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Panamanian Creole English (jam)

Written In: English  (eng)

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