TY - BOOK ID - 77932083 TI - Codeswitching on the web PY - 2006 SN - 1282155423 9786612155420 9027293309 9789027293305 9789027253903 9027253900 PB - Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - Code switching (Linguistics) KW - Creole dialects, English KW - English language KW - Electronic mail messages. KW - Germanic languages KW - English Creole languages KW - Negro-English dialects KW - Language shift KW - Switching (Linguistics) KW - Bilingualism KW - Linguistics KW - Diglossia (Linguistics) KW - E-mail correspondence KW - E-mail messages KW - Email correspondence KW - Email messages KW - Telematics KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic mail messages KW - Computer architecture. Operating systems KW - Pragmatics KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Creolan languages KW - Script switching (Linguistics) KW - CHANGEMENT DE CODE (LINGUISTIQUE) KW - LANGUES CREOLES (ANGLAISES) KW - ANGLAIS (LANGUE) KW - COURRIELS KW - JAMAIQUE KW - ASPECT SOCIAL UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77932083 AB - Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creole continuum. The book will likewise be useful to students of computer-mediated communication, the use and development of non-standardized languages, language ecology, and codeswitching. The central methodological issue in this study is codeswitching in written language, a neglected area of study at the moment since most literature in codeswitching research is based on spoken data. The three analytical chapters present the data in a critical discussion of established and more recent theoretical approaches to codeswitching. Fields that will benefit from this book include interactional sociolinguistics, creole studies, English as a world language, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. ER -