Adolescents and online fan fiction.9780820497389 Adolescents and online fan fiction. Black, Rebecca W. Peter Lang Lang language LANG Louisiana Army National Guard Lang Langobardian (linguistics) LANG Los Angeles Newspaper Guild Publishing Inc 2008 154 pages $29.95 Paperback New literacies and digital epistemologies; v.23 PN3377 Black (U. of California, Irvine) studies the emergence of online fan fiction sites, and notes how adolescent ad·o·les·cent adj. Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. n. A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager. participants are actually producing innovations in language and communication with their contributions. The author explains that these informal writings are actually connected with language socialization socialization /so·cial·iza·tion/ (so?shal-i-za´shun) the process by which society integrates the individual and the individual learns to behave in socially acceptable ways. so·cial·i·za·tion n. , literacy and identity development among young people. Written for students and observers of linguistics linguistics, scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human , literature and modern culture, this book may be too technical to appeal to general audiences. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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