Description
Language, Creativity and Humour Online
Language and Digital Media Series
Author: Vásquez Camilla
Language: English
Subjects for Language, Creativity and Humour Online:
Keywords
Helpful Votes; Language and linguistics; Interactive Web Interface; Creativity; Today’s Social Media Platforms; Humour; Linguistic Creativity; Online; Chat Post; internet; Tumblr Users; digital media; Novelty Account; media; Register Incongruity; Computer Mediated Communication; Script Opposition; CMC; Bic Pens; interaction; Linguistic Researchers; play; Humour Online; Letter Repetition; online texts; Parody Account; Nicki Minaj; social media; Banana Slicer; Twitter; Image Macros; Tumblr; Fan Fiction; Amazon; Co-constructed Phenomenon; methodology; CMC; discourse analysis; Trump’s Tweets; Language and Media; Tumblr Posts; Language and Communication; Twitter Users; Digital communication; Imagined Interaction; Review Space
Publication date: 05-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Description
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Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms. It introduces new digital genres and contexts, expanding existing research on computer mediated communication (CMC) and covering key concepts in research on linguistic creativity. The book presents original linguistic analyses of a variety of digital genres, including:
? Novelty Twitter accounts and political humour
? Tumblr Chats
? Amazon review parodies.
This timely book uncovers the linguistic and interactional mechanisms underlying various types of creative, playful, and humorous texts online. It is essential reading for students and researchers working in the areas of language and media, and language and communication.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Research on Linguistic Creativity Online
Chapter 3: Novelty Twitter Accounts
Chapter 4: Tumblr Chats
Chapter 5: Amazon Review Parodies
Chapter 6: Conclusions
Index
Camilla Vásquez is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida (USF), USA.
