BECAUSE INTERNET : Understanding How Language is Changing (Record no. 182559)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781529112825 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Terms of availability | Purchased |
| Note | Current Books, Cochin |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 302.231 |
| Item number | McC/BE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McCulloch, Gretchen |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | BECAUSE INTERNET : Understanding How Language is Changing |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Great Britain |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Random House |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2020/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Size of unit | 326 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the Internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the Internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen mcculloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social Internet experience influences whether you prefer 'LOL' Or 'LOL', why sparkly tildes succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread. 'Mcculloch is such a disarming writer - lucid, friendly, unequivocally excited about her subject - that I began to Marvel at the flexibility of the online language she describes, with its numerous shades of subtlety |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Language and the Internet |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | English language |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social media-Semiotics |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Internet-Social aspects |
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| Koha item type | Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | Ernakulam Public Library | Ernakulam Public Library | General Stacks | 2020-12-23 | Purchase | 599.00 | 000063,2020/12/23 | 9 | 4 | 302.231 McC/BE | E195896 | 2024-10-10 | 2024-09-11 | 2024-09-11 | 2020-12-23 | Lending |