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Book: Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions

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Title: Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions
Subtitle: A Multimodal Approach
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415523165/

Author: Maria Grazia Sindoni

Hardback: ISBN: 9780415523165 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 80.00

Abstract:

Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new
patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what
communication actually is in the contemporary age. Typical modes of online
interaction encompass speech, writing, gesture, movement, gaze, and social
distance. This is nothing new, but here Sindoni asserts that all these modes
are integrated in unprecedented ways, enacting new interactional patterns and
new systems of interpretation among web users. These “non verbal” modes have
been sidelined by mainstream linguistics, whereas accounting for the
complexity of new genres and making sense of their educational impact is high
on this volume’ s agenda. Sindoni analyzes other new phenomena, ranging from
the intimate sphere (i.e. video chats, personal blogs or journals on social
networking websites) to the public arena (i.e. global-scale transmission of
information and knowledge in public blogs or media-sharing communities),
shedding light on the rapidly changing global web scenario.