Provides a wide-ranging survey of the sociolinguistic issues raised by the impact of information technology. The author demonstrates how and in which ways the new technologies both affect human communication and are in turn affected by the way people communicate using the technologies.
General Editor's Preface
1. Introduction
2. People communicating
3. The computer at work
4. The computer as phone message service
5. The computer as communication site
6. The computer as text processor
7. The computer as knowledge broker
8. Public highway or private road? or Who is in charge?
Glossary
References
Index
Denise Murray is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia and San José State University, California, USA. She is the author of What English Language Teachers Need to Knows (Vol 3, Routledge, 2014).