English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age /
Digitalization has profoundly transformed our communicative and linguistic environment, and the language used most in digital media around the globe is English. The articles in this book present new research focusing on the ways in which the English language and its speakers are influenced by digita...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
2026.
Series:
Language and Computers ;
87.
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: P57.I4
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age: Key Themes and Future Directions
- Heli Paulasto, Lea Meriläinen, Samuli Kaislaniemi and Mikko Laitinen
- Part 1 Contact in Digital Communication
- 1 Writing Nigerian Pidgin on the Web: Dynamic Developments on a Diasporic Forum
- Axel Bohmann and Mirka Honkanen
- 2 Lingua Franca English in 28 Characters: Tracking Americanization in Finnish Tweets
- Irene Taipale
- 3 "I'd Say It's a Smart English Accent": A Case Study of Language Attitudes on Reddit
- Sven Leuckert
- 4 "Jamaica Is Not the Only Jamaica": Language and Place on YouTube
- Axel Bohmann
- Part 2 Change through Digital Media
- 5 Accent Change without Face-to-Face Interaction among University Students during Covid-19: The Role of Technologically Mediated Communication
- Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries
- 6 The Era of Digital Journalism: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Syntactic Features of Online News
- Difei Zhang
- 7 Online Authenticity and Communicative Choices in 21s Cue-Card Vlogs
- Mel Evans and Caroline Tagg
- Index.