附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124).
Front Cover; Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; -- Part One -- New Media, New Structures; -- Part Two -- New Media, New Behaviours; Bibliography; Back Cover.
摘要:Recent developments in technology - video conferencing, email and the World Wide Web - have made this a crucial moment for those people studying language behaviour. Pemberton and Shurville place readers at the heart of investigations into what happens to language when people communicate via computers. These studies consider the ways in which we combine written, spoken and non-verbal modes to express ourselves through new media. They discuss informal activities such as email and the chat-room, educational uses of CMC for collaborative learning and language practice, and the integration of CMC i.
