31.1851, Books: Message and Medium: Tagg, Evans (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:05:09
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Message and Medium: Tagg, Evans (eds.)

 


Title: Message and Medium 
Subtitle: English Language Practices Across Old and New Media 
Series Title: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 105  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2zqb1Xl 


Editor: Caroline Tagg
Editor: Mel Evans

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110620399 Pages: 385 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Studies of digital communication technologies often focus on the apparently
unique set of multimodal resources afforded to users and the development of
innovative linguistic strategies for performing mediatised identities and
maintaining online social networks.

This edited volume interrogates the novelty of such practices by establishing
a transhistorical approach to the study of digital communication. The
transhistorical approach explores language practices as lived experiences
grounded in historical contexts, and aims to identify those elements of human
behaviour that transcend historical boundaries, looking beyond specific
developments in communication technologies to understand the enduring
motivations and social concerns that drive human communication.

The volume reveals long-term patterns in the indexical functions of seemingly
innovative written and multimodal resources and the ideologies that underpin
them, and shows that methods are not necessarily contingent on their datasets:
historical analytic frameworks can be applied to digital data and newer
approaches used to understand historical data. These insights present exciting
opportunities for English language researchers, both historical and modern.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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