Crispin Thurlow
From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media
University of Washington
way tracking popular framing cmc article critically reviews international corpus 101 printmedia accounts 2001 2005 languageuse technologies instant messaging text messaging combined perspective folk linguistics critical discourse analysis type metadiscourse ie discourse discourse reveals conceptual ideological assumptions particular communication practices come institutionalized understood article illustrated multiple examples across corpus order demonstrate recurrent metadiscursive themes mediatized depictions technologically computermediated discourse cmd rooted extravagant characterizations prevalence impact cmd together highly caricatured exemplifications actual practice popular influential misrepresentations typically exaggerate difference cmd nonmediated discourse misconstrue evolutionary trajectory language change belie cultural embeddedness cmd