Martin Solly
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780748691692
- eISBN:
- 9781474418546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748691692.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter looks at the impact of some of the technological innovations on the communicative practices of professional communities and genres, in the light of the new developments in the age of ...
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This chapter looks at the impact of some of the technological innovations on the communicative practices of professional communities and genres, in the light of the new developments in the age of globalization and the growing expansion of English, from a socioeconomic and sociolinguistic perspective as well as a technological one. The new technological affordances are extremely innovative and have a major impact on the discourse of professional communities, but they also proliferate rapidly and can be generically unstable. The chapter refers to examples drawn from the professional domains examined in the previous chapters (thus medicine, law and education), also with the aim of showing some of their stylistic features. It also looks at the discourse of a number of multimodal texts and blogs in order to examine their stylistic choices and to see how they are affected by the technological innovations and affordances.Less
This chapter looks at the impact of some of the technological innovations on the communicative practices of professional communities and genres, in the light of the new developments in the age of globalization and the growing expansion of English, from a socioeconomic and sociolinguistic perspective as well as a technological one. The new technological affordances are extremely innovative and have a major impact on the discourse of professional communities, but they also proliferate rapidly and can be generically unstable. The chapter refers to examples drawn from the professional domains examined in the previous chapters (thus medicine, law and education), also with the aim of showing some of their stylistic features. It also looks at the discourse of a number of multimodal texts and blogs in order to examine their stylistic choices and to see how they are affected by the technological innovations and affordances.
