Alexandra Georgakopoulou – författare

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of language-focused research on digital communication, taking stock and registering the latest trends that set the agenda for future developments in this thriving and fast-moving field. The contributors are all leading figures or established authorities in their areas, covering a wide range of topics and concerns in the following seven sections: • Methods and perspectives • Language resources, genres, and discourses• Digital literacies • Digital communication in public • Digital selves and online–offline lives • Communities, networks, relationships • New debates and further directions.This volume showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues and, at the same time, reflects upon and engages with cutting-edge research and new directions for study (as emerging within social media). A wide range of languages is represented, from Japanese, Greek, German, and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese, and African languages. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics, and media and communication studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on digital communication, taking stock and registering the latest trends that set the agenda for future developments in this thriving and fast moving field. The contributors are all leading figures or established authorities in their areas, covering a wide range of topics and concerns in the following seven sections: • Methods and Perspectives;• Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses; • Digital Literacies; • Digital Communication in Public;• Digital Selves and Online-Offline Lives;• Communities, Networks, Relationships;• New debates and Further directions. This volume showcases critical syntheses of the established literature on key topics and issues and, at the same time, reflects upon and engages with cutting edge research and new directions for study (as emerging within social media). A wide range of languages are represented, from Japanese, Greek, German and Scandinavian languages, to computer-mediated Arabic, Chinese and African languages. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies.

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

A clear and lively introduction to current trends in the theory, method and tools of discourse studies, this book is a valuable guide for students and teachers of linguistics as well as for those with an interest in the linguistic methods of analysing discourse (media, rhetoric and stylistics, pragmatics, communication studies scholars etc).* Comprehensive, accessible, state-of-the-art textbook * Close analyses of a wide range of narrative and non-narrative texts, both spoken and written* Emphasis on practical text analysis: includes guided activities for self-study or use in a classroom* Suggestions for further reading in each chapter.This revised second edition registers key changes in a rapidly expanding area and thoroughly updates suggestions for further reading and the bibliography.

Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek, Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.

Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. It traces the rise of “small stories” as a form of storytelling that thrives within the logics of immediacy, ephemerality, and curated sharing.Adopting a technographic, hands-on approach, this book addresses the theoretical issues and methodological choices that shape narrative discourse research, equipping readers with robust, replicable tools for analysing stories in context. Building on their innovative research in narrative and sociolinguistics, De Fina and Georgakopoulou unpack the unique features that distinguish digital stories and storytelling practices from other face-to-face situations. Across six engaging chapters, the authors showcase a wide range of practical examples, from vlogs, memes and conspiracy narratives to Instagram influencers and political commentary, illustrating the interplay between personal expression and platform design. They demonstrate how participants in storytelling practices shape and reshape their stories, emotions, and identity while being simultaneously facilitated and constrained by the very platforms used to circulate stories. The book further highlights the influence of design features on reframing events and collective sense-making.This applied guide is ideal core reading for programmes in digitally oriented discourse analysis, narrative analysis, sociolinguistics, and language and media. It is also an invaluable resource for researchers designing projects on online discourse and storytelling of all kinds.

Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. It traces the rise of “small stories” as a form of storytelling that thrives within the logics of immediacy, ephemerality, and curated sharing.Adopting a technographic, hands-on approach, this book addresses the theoretical issues and methodological choices that shape narrative discourse research, equipping readers with robust, replicable tools for analysing stories in context. Building on their innovative research in narrative and sociolinguistics, De Fina and Georgakopoulou unpack the unique features that distinguish digital stories and storytelling practices from other face-to-face situations. Across six engaging chapters, the authors showcase a wide range of practical examples, from vlogs, memes and conspiracy narratives to Instagram influencers and political commentary, illustrating the interplay between personal expression and platform design. They demonstrate how participants in storytelling practices shape and reshape their stories, emotions, and identity while being simultaneously facilitated and constrained by the very platforms used to circulate stories. The book further highlights the influence of design features on reframing events and collective sense-making.This applied guide is ideal core reading for programmes in digitally oriented discourse analysis, narrative analysis, sociolinguistics, and language and media. It is also an invaluable resource for researchers designing projects on online discourse and storytelling of all kinds.

This new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication reflects the profound transformations that digital communication has undergone over the past decade. Since the first edition, social media platforms have evolved rapidly, short-form video and influencer cultures have reshaped online interaction and artificial intelligence has begun to play an increasingly visible role in how communication is produced, circulated and interpreted. New chapters address developments such as visuality, the growing role of AI in communication, short-form video platforms, influencer cultures, cancel culture and the online-offline nexus and decolonising digital communication researchThe volume introduces key research approaches and methods used to analyse digital discourse, interaction and multimodal communication. It brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to examine how language operates across contemporary digital environments. The chapters address key themes including methods for studying digital communication, multimodal and platform-based discourse, online storytelling and identity, influencer and participatory cultures, political communication and the role of algorithms and AI in shaping interaction. Combining theoretical perspectives with empirical case-studies from diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, the author reflect on the methodological and ethical challenges of researching language in rapidly evolving digital settings. New chapters, updated perspectives and expanded global case-studies provide an up-to-date overview of a range of linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches to how digital technologies are transforming everyday communication.This handbook is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in language and digital communication digital humanities, and any interdisciplinary programs examining the intersection of language, technology, and digital culture.

Discourse studies, the study of the ways in which language is used in texts and contexts, is a fast-moving and increasingly diverse field. With contributions from leading and upcoming scholars from across the world, and covering cutting-edge research, this Handbook offers an up-to-date survey of Discourse Studies. It is organized according to perspectives and areas of engagement, with each chapter providing an overview of the historical development of its topic, the main current issues, debates and synergies, and future directions. The Handbook presents new perspectives on well-established themes such as narrative, conversation-analytic and cognitive approaches to discourse, while also embracing a range of up-to-the-minute topics from post-humanism to digital surveillance, recent methodological orientations such as linguistic landscapes and multimodal discourse analysis, and new fields of engagement such as discourses on race, religion and money.

Discourse studies, the study of the ways in which language is used in texts and contexts, is a fast-moving and increasingly diverse field. With contributions from leading and upcoming scholars from across the world, and covering cutting-edge research, this Handbook offers an up-to-date survey of Discourse Studies. It is organized according to perspectives and areas of engagement, with each chapter providing an overview of the historical development of its topic, the main current issues, debates and synergies, and future directions. The Handbook presents new perspectives on well-established themes such as narrative, conversation-analytic and cognitive approaches to discourse, while also embracing a range of up-to-the-minute topics from post-humanism to digital surveillance, recent methodological orientations such as linguistic landscapes and multimodal discourse analysis, and new fields of engagement such as discourses on race, religion and money.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic frameworkRepresents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative researchIncludes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories researchIntroduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page