Virtual meatspace: Word formation and deformation in cyberpunk discussions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: Variation, representation, and change in English in CMC 1
5. I. Code and Variety
6. Modular repertoires in English-using social networks: A study of language choice in the networks of adult Facebook users 17
7. Tweets as graffiti: What the reconstruction of Vulgar Latin can tell us about Black Twitter 43
8. “Ets jast ma booooooooooooo”: Social meanings of Scottish accents on YouTube 69
9. II. Contact, Spread, and Innovation
10. Global varieties of English gone digital: Orthographic and semantic variation in digital Nigerian Pidgin 101
11. Virtual meatspace: Word formation and deformation in cyberpunk discussions 123
12. Language change because Twitter? Factors motivating innovative uses of because across the English-speaking Twittersphere 149
13. Grammatical feature frequencies of English on Twitter in Finland 179
14. III. Style and Identity
15. Stylistic uniformity and variation online and on-screen: A case study of The Real Housewives 213
16. Exploring stylistic co-variation on Twitter: The case of DH 241
17. Who I am and who I want to be: Variation and representation in a messaging platform 261
18. IV. Mode and Medium
19. Electronically-mediated Englishes: Synchronicity revisited 281
20. Social factors and lexical frequency influencing English adjective gradation in speech and CMC 301
21. Implications of attitudes about non-standard English on interactional structure in the computer-mediated workplace: A story of two modes 327
22. “At least I’m not Chinese, gay, or female”: Marginalized voices in World of Warcraft 351
23. Index 377