Codeswitching on the Web (eBook)

English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication

Hinrichs Lars Hinrichs (Autor)

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2006
317 Seiten
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-90-272-9330-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Mail Server
• ISBN-10: 90-272-9330-9 / 9027293309
• ISBN-13: 978-90-272-9330-5 / 9789027293305