Description
Because Internet explores how the internet is changing the English language and what our online interactions reveal about the way we communicate. Gretchen McCulloch examines how apps and platforms shape internet conversations, how online communities spread slang and jargon, and how social media lets us observe language evolving in real time. She explains why people write “LOL” or “lol” depending on their first social internet experiences, how sparkly tildes succeeded where proposed punctuation marks for irony failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and why the artfully disordered language of animal memes such as lolcats and doggo helped them spread.
Information
Author: Mcculloch Gretchen
Language: English
Publication date: July 25, 2019
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 328
ISBN/EAN: 9780735210936