Language and the Internet / The Language of New Media

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Language and the Internet. David Crystal. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.272pp. GBP 13.95 hbk.

The Language of New Media. Lev Manovich. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 354 pp. $34.95 hbk. $19.95 pbk.

In Language and the Internet, David Crystal examines the Internet's effects from a linguistic perspective. Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, begins by exploring the vocabulary of the Internet, from emoticons ("smileys") and abbreviations ("brb," "lol") to the neologisms ("netiquette," "cybersquatter") that have become part of our language on and off ...

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