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Digital Orality : Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces - Cecelia Cutler
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Digital Orality

Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces

By: Cecelia Cutler (Editor), Soubeika Bahri (Editor), May Ahmar (Editor)

Hardcover | 1 November 2022

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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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"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)

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