Johnson and the Internet

• Main Author: Crystal, David (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: London University of London Press 2005
• Series: Hilda Hulme Lecture Series
• Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Archiving, preservation & digitisation; Communication studies; data, Johnson, computer-mediated speech, digital, communications, Netspeak
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Professor David Crystal discusses Computer-Mediated Speech (CMC), or Netspeak. In this short book, he presents a discursive timeline of the linguistic quirks of digital interactivity. From framing to flaming, from emoticons to text speak, can we ever communicate effectively in our digital realms? The book is based on a lecture given as part of the Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures, established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of his wife, Dr Hilda Hulme. The lectures are on the subject of English literature and relate to one of 'the three fields in which Dr Hulme specialised, namely Shakespeare, language in Elizabethan drama, and the nineteenth-century novel'. This lecture by Professor David Crystal was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 2005.