Language, media and technologies

This book analyses from various perspectives topical and empirical issues related to language, media and technologies. To be more precise, the book studies the revitalisation of minority languages through the media, the pragmatics of condolence messages in online news fora, the use of corpora to analyse of grammatical items, punctuation in cyber texts, the conceptualisation of social ills such as corruption in online media, the gendered use of language in chat groups, issues on language and identity in online fora and digital practices such as internet memes. The volume comprises 10 papers whose data were collected from questionnaire, participant observation, written materials, online and audio-visual sources, just to name a few. The analyses done in the various papers are sociolinguistic, cognitive, graphological, morphological, lexical, discursive, semantic, pragmatic, etc. Contents: Alain Flaubert Takam: Revitalisation of minority languages through the media: the Cameroon experience - Bernard Mulo Farenkia: The pragmatics of condolence messages in a Cameroonian online news forum - Daniel Nkemleke: Frequency, meaning and contextual features of modals in the corpus of cameroon English - Camilla Arundie Tabe: Does punctuation matter? The changing nature of cyber texts with reference to Cameroonian email and Facebook - Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng: On the conceptualisation of corruption metaphors in Cameroon online media - Jean Pierre Atouga: Women predicament in war situation: an investigation on language used on online media - Mun Woo Lee: Gender inequality in cyberspace: the case of misogynous internet language in Korea - Comfort Oben Beyang Ojongnkpot: Language and identity in the discourse of a whatsapp chat group - Florian Busch and Johannes C. P. Schmid: Internet memes as digital practices: stock character macros in multimodal structure, function, and metapragmatic reflexivity - Edmund Bamiro: Textual functions of metaphor in Nigerian literature: the example of Soyinka and Achebe.