David Crystal, Language and the Internet

Abstract

In the preface to Language and the Internet David Crystal explains how the shifting emphasis from technology to “people and purposes” (x) contributes to making the Internet a linguistic revolution. The aim of Language and the Internet is “to find out about the role of language in the Internet and the effect of the Internet on language” (x) and this objective is pursued over nine well-balanced chapters, one more than the first edition of the same book. Chapter One provides a general introducti...