Digital Orality Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces

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 exampl...

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Other Authors: Cutler, Cecelia (Editor), Ahmar, May (Editor), Bahri, Soubeika (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: A New Orality in the Digital Age
  • Part I: Political and Identity Stances
  • Chapter 2: Digital Orality? Reimagining and Reclaiming Vernacular Pronunciations Through Digitally Mediated Communication
  • Chapter 3: Ettounsi and Tamazight Writing on Facebook: Oral Vernaculars or New Literacies
  • Chapter 4: Ettounsi and Tamazight Writing on Facebook: Oral Vernaculars or New Literacies
  • Chapter 5: Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Transcription of Shanghai Wu Dialect on the Internet
  • Part II: Performances of accents and styles
  • Chapter 6: Orality, Alignment, and Stance in YouTube Comments About the New York City Accent
  • Chapter 7: How Many s in Wales? Performing a Welsh Accent on Twitter
  • Chapter 8: “You’re in the gym to BUILD IT BIG, not have social hour”: Performing Dumb Jock Masculinity on a Male Erotic Hypnosis Messageboard
  • Chapter 9: Performing Politeness in Online Dating: How Orthographic Choices Signal Relationship Status
  • Chapter 10: Implications of Digital Orality and New Directions