The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet

by Philip Seargeant (Editor), C. Tagg (Editor)

This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published November 27, 2013

About the author

Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University. He is author of The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language (2009), Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context (2012) and From Language to Creative Writing (with Bill Greenwell, 2013); he is also editor of English in Japan in the Era of Globalization (2011) and English in the World Today: History, Diversity, Change (with Joan Swann, 2012).