Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication

Written for advanced students and scholars studying language patterns in social media and online communication, this volume is a timely resource for understanding how and for what purposes digital youth use their multilingual repertoires. It showcases how different forms of data can be analysed in various ways using a range of theoretical frames.

List of contents

1. Multilingualism in the digital sphere: the diverse practices of youth online Cecelia Cutler and Unn Røyneland; 2. Alienated at home: the role of online media as young Orthodox Muslim women beat a retreat from Marseille Cécile Evers; 3. Cool mobilities: youth style and mobile telephony in contemporary South Africa Zannie Bock, Nausheena Dalwai and Christopher Stroud; 4. Nuancing the jaxase: young and urban texting in Senegal Kristin Vold Lexander; 5. Peaze up! Adaptation, innovation, and variation in German hip hop discourse Matt Garley; 6. Tsotsitaal online: the creativity of tradition Ana Deumert; 7. 'Pink chess gring gous': discursive and orthographic resistance among Mexican-American rap fans on YouTube Cecelia Cutler; 8. Virtually Norwegian: negotiating language and identity on YouTube Unn Røyneland; 9. Footing and role alignment online: mediatized indigeneity and Andean hip hop Karl Swinehart; 10. The language of diasporic blogs: a framework for the study of rhetoricity in written online code-switching Lars Hinrichs; 11. The Korean wave, K-pop fandom, and multilingual microblogging Jamie Shinhee Lee.

Summary

Written for advanced students and scholars studying language patterns in social media and online communication, this volume is a timely resource for understanding how and for what purposes digital youth use their multilingual repertoires. It showcases how different forms of data can be analysed in various ways using a range of theoretical frames.

Product details

• Authors: Cecelia (City University of New York) Royn Cutler
• Assisted by: Cecelia Cutler (Editor), Cutler Cecelia (Editor), Unn Røyneland (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781107464544
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46454-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Age groups: adolescents, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism