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Language, Media and Technologies: Usages, Forms and Functions
Edited by Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng, Camilla Arundie Tabe, and Daniel Nkemleke
Published by LINCOM Academic Publishers

This book analyses from various perspectives topical and empirical issues related to language, media and technologies. To be more precise, the book studies the revitalization of minority languages through the media, the pragmatics of condolence messages in online news fora, the use of corpora to analyze of grammatical items, punctuation in cyber texts, the conceptualization of social ills such as corruption in online media, the gendered use of language in chat groups, issues on language and identity in online fora and digital practices such as internet memes. The volume comprises 10 papers whose data were collected from questionnaire, participant observation, written materials, online and audio-visual sources, just to name a few. The analyses done in the various papers are sociolinguistic, cognitive, graphological, morphological, lexical, discursive, semantic, pragmatic, etc.

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