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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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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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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Keywords
- identity
- orthography
- sociolinguistics of writing
- online communication
- oral communication
- written data
- social meaning
- language in society
- language ideologies
- qualitative analysis
Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA
Cecelia Cutler
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MESAAS, Columbia University, New York, USA
May Ahmar
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Modern Language Department, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Soubeika Bahri
About the editors
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: 978-3-031-10435-0Due: 15 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 Differential Psychology