Explores the history, current status, and potential of English as an international language of communication, featuring in the new edition coverage of English on the Internet ...

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as chat , MUDs and MOOs, has attracted ...

Looks at the reasons languages fall into disuse and often become extinct.

Two thirds of global Internet users are non-English speakers. Despite this, most scholarly literature on the Internet and computer-mediated-communication (CMC) focuses ...

This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting ...

Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about ...

The Internet is changing the way we communicate. As a ‘cross’ between letter-writing and conversation, email has altered traditional letter-writing conventions. Websites and ...