In his 1986 ARIST" review of computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems, Steinfield i
1986) identified a number of gaps in the literature on CMC that he hoped would be filled by …

Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our
mental resources and get things done. Examining everyday language and drawing on a …

This third edition of Teaching and Researching Writing continues to build upon the previous
editions' work of providing educators and practitioners in applied linguistics with a clearly …

Computer-mediated discourse is the communication produced when human beings interact
with one another by transmitting messages via networked computers. The study of computer …

Since its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot's Language and Gender has been a leading
textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth …

The so called'net generation'is popularly assumed to be naturally media literate and to be
necessarily reinventing conventional linguistic and communicative practices. With this in …

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

Course Description:" This course is designed to integrate the theories and principles of the
teaching of English to speakers of other languages and applying them to classroom …

This paper examines linguistic variation on an Internet Relay Chat channel with respect to
the hypothesis, based on the model of Milroy and Milroy (1992), that standard variants tend …

'Speech community'has been a troubled term, caught in a number of methodological,
epistemic and political cross-currents, and in this paper I will try to trace some of its most …