email, chat, and linguistic anthropology

[Francis M Hult]

Take a look at

Crystal, D.  (2001).  Language and the Internet.  Cambridge: CUP.

It offers a solid overview of the nuts and bolts about the social implications of
internet language use.

Best,
Francis

>
> Dear members of the list,
>
> I am looking for ways to guide grad students who want to investigate
> virtual communities in a linguistic anthropology grad course, and I
> know there is some ethnographic lit. out there, and I think there is
> some linguistic anthropology that speaks to those domains, and in
> fact I believe in the last two days I saw an article that had just
> come out on families and the internet in an anthropology journal like
> Current Anthropology. But just now I'm not finding anything.
>
> This list has always come to the rescue in such cases.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jim
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