Digital Orality: Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031104358
• ISBN13: 9783031104350
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"