Cambridge University Press, 2003. — x, 272 pages. — ISBN: 0-511-01340-X; ISBN: 0-521-80212-1. David Crystal investigates the nature of the impact which the Internet is making on language. There is already a widespread popular mythology that the Internet is going to be bad for the future of language – that technospeak will rule, standards be lost, and creativity diminished as...
Routledge, 2011. — x, 179 pages. — ISBN13: 978-0-203-83090-1. The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as a new field:...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 239 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-954490-5. Text messaging has spread like wildfire. Indeed texting is so widespread that many parents, teachers, and media pundits have been outspoken in their criticism of it. Does texting spell the end of western civilization? In this humorous, level-headed and insightful book, David Crystal argues that the panic over...
Routledge, 2013. — x, 208 pages. — ISBN: 978–0–203–55230–8. In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language. The effects of language use in the digital world can be seen in every aspect of language study, and new ways of researching the field are needed. In this book the authors look at language online from a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — xii, 260 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-137-02931-7. This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in...
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