Intro: What is Internet Linguistics?
Reading: NONE
Define what we will be studying as Internet Linguistics – what counts as linguistics and what doesn’t – as this could easily become the study of everything.
Key points here:
We are only looking at language
Our questions are:
- How has language and human to human or human to computer interaction changed in response to digital technologies?
- What linguistic questions can be asked as a result of having so much recorded text?
