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Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
>FYI (reposted from the Linguist list)... DZO
>
>Date: 26-Oct-2004
>From: Dieter Stein <[email protected]>
>Subject: New E-Journal: Language & Internet
>
>Arguably the innovation that is having the greatest cultural, societal,
>economic and political impact is the Internet. As a consequence, there
>are fewer fields in the humanities and the social sciences that have
>attracted as much attention as the effects of the Internet. One of the
>areas that are involved prominently in the Internet in many ways is
>language. Language is involved in the many communicative functions
>performed in and through the Internet, from medical counselling through
>advertising to scientific discourse and personal communication.
>
>At the same time, the specific technical and pragmatic conditions of use
>have given rise to uses of language in a new mode that, while related to
>both written and spoken language, appears in many ways to represent a new
>language medium in its own right, in competition with the two other
>language media, and certainly with new communicative genres, such as
>different versions of email, chats, newsgroups, lists, MUDs, MOOs,
>guestbooks etc. These new genres are exploited by different societal uses
>in different ways, they have new floor rules, new rules of cooperation,
>and they involve new social roles, new networks, as well as psycho-social
>and emotional effects and perceptions of the
>communicative situation that are not identical to the ones observed with
>comparable written and spoken genres. These effects are managed, produced
>and manipulated by language, and, the other way round, the use of language
>reflects these perceptions.
>
>As a consequence, there new uses and new use types, resulting in many
>facets of language change, and ultimately in structural change. A new
>branch of language use, if not structure, is evolving.
>
>Language@Internet will focus research the pivotal role of language under
>the new medial conditions of use and interacting with the various societal
>domains. Linguistic concerns, including sociolinguistic, discourse
>analytic, pragmatic perspectives will be at the center of interest, but it
>will have to include the conditions, functions and constraints of these
>societal domains, as they will be factors in shaping language and being
>themselves transformed in their practice in the process.
>
>In order for society to be able to exploit and implement these new uses,
>there has to be a body of scientific knowledge for these domains to draw
>upon in application and teaching. The purpose of this journal is not only
>to enhance our linguistic body of knowledge, but also to make available a
>repository of knowledge for application.
>
>Hitherto, such a body of knowledge focusing on language, to the extent it
>exists, was not available in a centralized form, but rather scattered over
>quite a range of publications, even in MA theses, impeding fast access to
>the state of research, a natural consequence of the fact that scientific
>interest in language use in the medium comes from very diverse
>perspectives and that the use of the Internet as grown-up means of
>communication met with less than full cultural confidence from more
>conservative quarters. It is the purpose of the journal to make available
>this body of research in an easy way that is congenial to the subject of
>research, the in the Internet, that exploits all the advantages over
>traditional ways of publication, including time and cost involved in
>publication.
>
>To ensure highest standards, Language@Internet works with a high-class
>specialised editorial board. Articles will be subjected to the same
>multiple blind peer reviewing process, as with quality paper journals.
>
>For more information about the journal, see www.languageatinternet.de
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