Hi Jasmine, Take a look at the thematic issue of *Journal of Sociolinguistics* (10/4 - 2006), especially the introduction written by Jannis Androutsopoulos ("Introduction: Sociolinguistics and computer-mediated communication", pp. 419-438). It is an excellent and comprehensive overview of the field (much more up-to-date than Crystal) with an exstensive bibliography. best, -- ivan panovic =========== balliol college oxford ox1 3bj united kingdom =========== On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Jasmine Pues <marimiko@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
My name is Jasmine Pues; and I am currently trying to find more resources on Netspeak/Internet language (English variants, as that's my native language) and how it is perceived. I often hear that guides to it are meant for parents (child safety, in the same line that parental controls for some ISPs are implemented), and that there's some murmurs in the education scene about the use of similar abbreviations and the general lack of proper grammar/spelling, but something more concrete would be nice.
I'm already using Crystal's Language and the Internet and the latest PEW surveys of Internet usage demographics, among some other books (on website design, language of the media), but if there is any further information that I'm not aware of, articles or whatnot, that would be much appreciated. I'm afraid I'm still fairly new to Internet research, after all.
Thank you for your help!
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