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020			_a9781621005452 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9781621004974
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035			_a(OCoLC)833401344
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050		4	_aP96.T422 -- A44 2012eb
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100	1		_aTaiwo, Rotimi.
245	1	0	_aComputer-Mediated Discourse in Africa.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aHauppauge : _bNova Science Publishers, Incorporated, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2012.
300			_a1 online resource (198 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aMedia and Communications - Technologies, Policies and Challenges
505	0		_aIntro -- COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA -- COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- PRESENCE PLATFORMS, SOCIABILITY, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MXIT, MIM, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING: AN OVERVIEW -- PRESSENCE PLATFORMS -- TECHNOLOGIES OF SOCIABILITY -- MOBILES FOR LEARNING (M4L) -- Exemplar A -- Exemplar B -- TECHNOLGIES FOR PAL -- ALLAYING FEARS OF MOBILE AND MXIT -- FUTURE OUTLOOK -- CONCLUSION -- KEY TERMS AND CONCISE DEFINITIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE DISCOURSE OF NOLITICS IN THE NAIJAPALS ONLINE COMMUNITY WEBSITE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- NOLITICS -- WEBLOGS AND DISCUSSION FORUMS -- METHODOLOGY -- THE CORPUS -- Category Descriptions -- ANALYSES AND DISCUSSION -- DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- CRITIQUES -- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION -- ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN -- POLITICAL PROPAGANDA -- SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- DISCURSIVE PRAGMATICS OF NOLITICS -- METAPHORS -- DIRECTIVE ACTS -- INTERROGATIVES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NEW TEXTUAL TERRAIN IN AFRICA: CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY THROUGH DIGITAL TEXTS IN SOUTH AFRICA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DESCRIBING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT -- CONTEXTUALISING THE STUDY -- NEW LITERACIES MULTILITERACIES AND MULTIMODALITIES -- SOCIAL SEMIOTICS -- THE STUDY -- FANISA'S DIGITAL REPRESENTATION: FANISA'S HIGH SCHOOL LIFE -- SIHLE'S DIGITAL PRESENTATION: HIV/AIDS -- DISCUSSION -- Constructing Identities Multimodally -- Meaning as 'Design': Design to Re-Design -- Implications for English Teaching and Learning -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF EMERGING PARADIGMS AND PROMINENT FEATURES IN NIGERIAN SMS DISCOURSE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FEAUTURES OF SMS -- REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE -- METHODOLOGY.
505	8		_aCOHESION -- ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF TEXTS -- DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS FROM THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES -- Reigious Texts (R1-R5) -- Social/Personal Texts (S1-S5) -- Business/Economic Texts (B1-5) -- Educational/ Institutional (E1-5) -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIONAL EXCHANGES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM -- COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION -- AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE -- METHODOLOGY -- DATA ANALYSIS -- Sociolinguistic Indices in the Data -- Yoruba Proverbs in CMC as Sociolinguistic Nuance -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- DISCURSIVE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FLAMING IN NIGERIAN ONLINE FORUMS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FLAMING AS AN IMPOLITE LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR -- PERSPECTIVES ON FLAMING -- THE DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CULTURE AND SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCIES OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) IN AFRICA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL VARIABILITY -- Gender Disparity -- Oral Culture and Relationship -- DIGITAL DIVIDE -- LINGUISTIC CHALLENGES IN CMC -- THE DARK SIDE OF ICTS IN NIGERIA -- IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FACE IN NIGERIAN NEW MEDIA DISCOURSE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION: NIGERIAN NEW MEDIA DISCOURSE AND RESEARCH -- GOFFMAN'S AND BROWN AND LEVINSON'S FRAMEWORKS IN PREVIOUS NIGERIAN RESEARCH -- DIGITAL FACEWORK AND RELATED PHENOMENA - A REVIEW -- DATA -- ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: FACE CONSTITUTING THEORY -- DISCURSIVE-RELATIONAL DIGITAL FACE ACTS -- FACE CO-CONSTRUCTION -- PHATIC FACEWORK -- COLLABORATIVE FACE ACTS -- CONFRONTATIONAL FACE ACTS -- CODE-SWITCHING AS FACEWORK -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED AFRICAN CHATS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- OBJECTIVES.
505	8		_aCOMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) AND CHAT -- LANGUAGE CREATIVITY IN CHATROOM DIALOGUE -- Vocabulary Manipulation -- Grammar -- Paralinguistics and Graphics -- DISCUSSION -- FUTURE TRENDS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PRAGMATIC ACTS AND CONTEXTUAL BELIEFS IN TWO NIGERIAN ONLINE NEWS MEDIA FEEDBACK FORUM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDIES ON COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS -- Positive Comments -- Negative Comments -- Neutral Comments -- FUTURE TRENDS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aCommunication and technology -- Africa.
650		0	_aDigital communications -- Social aspects -- Africa.
650		0	_aDiscourse analysis -- Africa.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aChiluwa, Innocent.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aTaiwo, Rotimi _tComputer-Mediated Discourse in Africa _dHauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated,c2012 _z9781621004974
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aMedia and Communications - Technologies, Policies and Challenges
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