Cyberlines is the first original and in-depth analysis of the Internet's distinctive language and culture. It argues that the exponential growth of Internet usage in the last decade is producing new languages, as well as new styles of communication and new cultures. It offers an exciting and comprehensive analysis of that fusion of linguistic, visual and technological dimensions which has come to characterise the world of the Internet, cyberspace and cyberlanguage.

An essential guide for teachers
The book is an essential text for beginning teachers, teachers of language and those educators who seek to keep pace with change. It sets out to equip teachers and educators with a key to understanding the new languages and new styles of usage and communication as they evolve and to arm them with a new understanding of the rapidity and far-reaching extent of cultural change.

It Analyses the Meaning of Cyberlanguage
Cyberlines deals with the nature of cyberlanguage and its social and educational outcomes, patterns of metaphoric language in the cyberworld, the new literacy skills in Screen Reading, or deciphering electronic texts, cyberseeking or electronic information searching (a new form of literacy), the cyberself as a cultural identity, cyber communities, and the relationship between style and cultural identity on the Internet.