Multilingual youth practices in computer mediated communication / edited by Cecelia Cutler, Unn Røyneland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cutler, Cecelia, editor.

Røyneland, Unn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Language.

Youth.

Multilingualism--Data processing.

Multilingualism.

Multilingualism--Social aspects.

Language and the Internet.

Communication and technology.

Language and culture--Data processing.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

With an eye to the playful, reflexive, self-conscious ways in which global youth engage with each other online, this volume analyzes user-generated data from these interactions to show how communication technologies and multilingual resources are deployed to project local as well as trans-local orientations. With examples from a range of multilingual settings, each author explores how youth exploit the creative, heteroglossic potential of their linguistic repertoires, from rudimentary attempts to engage with others in a second language to hybrid multilingual practices. Often, their linguistic, orthographic, and stylistic choices challenge linguistic purity and prescriptive correctness, yet, in other cases, their utterances constitute language policing, linking 'standardness' or 'correctness' to piety, trans-local affiliation, or national belonging. Written for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in linguistics, applied linguistics, education and media and communication studies, this volume is a timely and readymade resource for researching online multilingualism with a range of methodologies and perspectives.

Contents:

Multilingualism in the digital sphere: the diverse practices of youth online / Cecelia Cutler and Unn Royneland

Alienated at home: the role of online media as young orthodox Muslim women beat a retreat from Marseille / Cecile Evers

Cool mobilities: youth style and mobile telephony in contemporary South Africa / Zannie Bock, Nausheena Dalwai and Christopher Stroud / Nuancing the jaxase: young and urban texting in Senegal / Kristin Vold Lexander

Peaze up! Adaptation, innovation, and variation in German hip hop discourse / Matt Garley

Tsotsitaal online: the creativity of tradition / Ana Deumert

"Pink chess gring gous": discursive and orthographic resistance among Mexican-American rap fans on YouTube / Cecelia Cutler

Virtually Norwegian: negotiating language and identity on YouTube / Unn Royneland

Footing and role alignment online: mediatized indigeneity and Andean hip hop / Karl Swinehart

The language of diasporic blogs: a framework for the study of rhetoricity in written online code-switching / Lars Hinrichs

The Korean Wave, K-pop fandom, and multilingual microblogging / Jamie Shinhee Lee.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-69242-7

1-316-13557-8

1-108-63594-6