Overview
- Examines digital writing practices to explore the significance of vernacular characteristics
- Describes the representation and performance of local, dialectal, conversational registers and styles
- Looks at recent examples of how people express highly subjective stances and local identities
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This volume showcases innovative research on dialectal, vernacular, and other forms of “oral,” speech-like writing in digital spaces. The shift from a predominantly print culture to a digital culture is shaping people's identities and relationships to one another in important ways. Using examples from distinct international contexts and language varieties (kiAmu, Lebanese, Ettounsi, Shanghai Wu, Welsh English, and varieties of American English) the authors examine how people use unexpected codes, scripts, and spellings to say something about who they are or aspire to be. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in the impact of social media on language use, style, and orthography, as well as those with a broader interest in literacy, communication, language contact, and language change.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political and Identity Stances
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Front Matter
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Performances of Accents and Styles
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Brief description of the rationale behind the structure of the book is provided in the overall introduction, a dedicated theoretically framed opening for each major part is a useful aid to the reader in recognizing the theoretical and methodological correspondence of the individual chapters as the reason for grouping them together. I believe that engaging with the ideas of intersectionality and genre would make for useful introductions to each set of the chapters” (Alwin C. Aguirre, Language in Society, Vol. 53 (2), 2024)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cecelia Cutler is a Professor in the Linguistics Program at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA.
May Ahmar is a Senior Lecturer in discipline in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department at Columbia University, New York, USA.
Soubeika Bahri is an Instructor in the Modern Language Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Orality
Book Subtitle: Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces
Editors: Cecelia Cutler, May Ahmar, Soubeika Bahri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10433-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10432-9Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10435-0Published: 01 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10433-6Published: 31 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 302
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Social Media, Digital Humanities, Writing Skills, Personality and Social Psychology