Overview
- Explores the ways that English is used to enact “trans-national” identities
- Compares the code-mixing of two social media communities made up of European youths
- Examines the way that communities create and maintain distinctively national online spaces
Part of the book series: Language and Globalization (LAGL)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities. The analysis of these communities serves not only as a comparison of online language practices, but also as a close look at how globalization phenomena and ‘international English’ play out in the practices of everyday life in different non-English-speaking countries. The author concludes that the root of the distinctive practices in the two communities studied is the disparity between their language ideologies. She argues that community participants draw on their respective national language ideologies, which have developed over centuries, but also reach beyond any static forms of those ideologies to negotiate, contest, and re-evaluate them. This book will be of interest to linguists and other social scientists interested in social media, youth language and the real-world linguistic consequences of globalization.
Reviews
“While studies of transidiomatic practices involving English in social media communities abound, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain’s book takes a unique and refreshing perspective of understanding them within the context of historical traditions of national language ideologies, offering new insights for investigating the indexical meaning of English as a global language in online interaction and beyond.” (Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain is Professor of German and Applied Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research includes work in language, migration, and identity, code-switching both in communities and in the language classroom, and language attitudes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trans-National English in Social Media Communities
Authors: Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50615-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50614-6Published: 25 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50615-3Published: 28 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 315
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: English, Sociolinguistics, Youth Culture, Media Studies, Online Marketing/Social Media, Language Policy and Planning