Description:
Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking practices demand profound rethinking of the categories of linguistic analysis, given the blurring of traditional distinctions between oral and written discourse in digital texts. This volume reconsiders underlying linguistic and semiotic frameworks of analysis of spoken and written discourse in the light of the new paradigms of online communication, in keeping with a multimodal theoretical framework.
Review Quotes:
'Sindoni's solid and reasoned approach provides scope for implementing and adapting her methodologies and frameworks to new and related texts. Overall, the volume is rich in ideas and inspiring in terms of proposed theoretical and analytical frameworks based on solid data collection and analysis.' - Junyu Zhang and Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University, China in Learning, Media, and Technology