Studies of digital communication technologies often focus on the
apparently unique set of multimodal resources afforded to users and
the development of innovative linguistic strategies for performing
mediatised identities and maintaining online social networks. This
edited volume interrogates the novelty of such practices by
establishing a transhistorical approach to the study of digital
communication. The transhistorical approach explores language
practices as lived experiences grounded in historical contexts, and
aims to identify those elements of human behaviour that transcend
historical boundaries, looking beyond specific developments in
communication technologies to understand the enduring motivations
and social concerns that drive human communication. The volume
reveals long-term patterns in the indexical functions of seemingly
innovative written and multimodal resources and the ideologies that
underpin them, and shows that methods are not necessarily
contingent on their datasets: historical analytic frameworks can be
applied to digital data and newer approaches used to understand
historical data. These insights present exciting opportunities for
English language researchers, both historical and modern.
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