Welcome to the course blog on Internet Linguistics. The purpose of this course is to develop answers to the following two questions:
- How has language and human to human or human to computer interaction changed in response to digital technologies?
- What linguistic questions can be asked as a result of having so much recorded text?
In the course of answering these questions, we will also develop answers to these questions:
- What does lol really mean?
- Is texting killing language?
- Can you abbreviate anything?
- Is digital communication talking or writing?
- Should people never say ‘slash’ or ‘hashtag’?
- Does technology bring us together or tear us apart?
- Why are there so many miscommunications via email?
- Why do we feel so insulted when someone ignores a text?
- Does punctuation have more meaning in a text or fb post?
- #Whatsupwithhashtags?!?!
