World Englishes and Social Media - (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes) by Sofia Rüdiger & Sven Leuckert & Jakob R E Leimgruber (Hardcover)

About the Book

An exploration of the diversity of World Englishes in the digital realm.

Book Synopsis

As social media keeps changing, so does the representation of World Englishes across the wide range of platforms available. This edited volume explores the different varieties of English on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube.

Social media platforms showcase an ever-increasing diversity in languages and varieties of languages used on them. Divided into three parts, the book focuses in turn on language variation in digital contexts, identities and social meaning making, and metalinguistic commentary, and ends with a discussion chapter providing an overview of World Englishes and social media. Investigating these areas in detail, the book covers a wealth of topics, including ethical questions and research methodology, linguistic features and creativity, and meta-discourse. By offering up-to-date coverage of English use across different platforms, it provides an in-depth insight into the dynamic space of language variation online.

Review Quotes

This book offers an exciting and important exploration of English on social media. Examining diverse platforms and contexts, it provides fresh insights into linguistic features, linguistic identity, metapragmatics and meaning-making beyond national boundaries. A groundbreaking contribution to understanding language in a globally connected digital world.
Britta Schneider, European University Viadrina, Germany

This valuable collection of writings will become an elucidating and helpful part of a growing body of work, whose discoveries are much needed in the digital era we live in.
Patricia Friedrich, PhD, Vice Provost and Professor, Arizona State University, USA

This volume deals with a topic that is long overdue: the manifestations of Englishes online. What makes this collection remarkable is how it foregrounds a number of methodological and conceptual issues that have ramifications also for the study of World Englishes offline.
Lionel Wee, Provost's Chair Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

About the Author

Sofia Rüdiger is Guest Professor for Applied English Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Sven Leuckert is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany.