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 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 ...