Spontaneous, Unedited, Naked
Review by ANNE EISENBERG

A Linguist Looks at Discourse on the Internet

Never mind those anxieties about the Internet’s impact on privacy, intellectual property and the recreational habits of 12-year-olds. What is it doing to the future of the English language? Will it really lead to the end of literacy as we know it – not to mention spelling?

Not according to David Crystal, a linguist who says in this witty, thoughtful book that, on the contrary, the discourse of the Internet – with its new, informal, even bizarre forms of language – neither threatens nor replaces existing varieties of English but instead enriches them, extending our range of expression and showing us “homo loquens at its best.”

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Responda em português.

Explicite a preocupação que é tema central do livro desenhado no Texto II.