World Englishes and Social Media

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.

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors1. Englishes Online and Online Englishes, Sven Leuckert (TU Dresden, Germany), Sofia Rüdiger (FU Berlin, Germany), Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (University of Regensburg, Germany)Part I: Language Variation in Digital Contexts2. Functional Expansion and Syntactic Change in Colloquial Singapore English Is It, Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (University of Regensburg, Germany), Jun Jie Lim (University of California San Diego, US), Mohamed Hafiz (National University of Singapore, Singapore)3. A Dynamic Perspective on Diasporic Social Media Communication, Axel Bohmann (University of Cologne, Germany), Fatlum Sadiku (University of Freiburg, Germany), Panagiota Papavasileiou (University of Freiburg, Germany)Part II: Identities and Social Meaning Making4. Global Englishes in Skateboarding: A Case Study of Margielyn Didal’s Multilingual Instagram Persona, Michael Westphal (Kiel University, Germany)5. Don’t Jack*** the Thing: Language Use and Political Discontent by Trinidadian TikTokers, Guyanne Wilson (University College London, UK)6. International Tourism in Cuba and Croatia: Investigating English Language Use on Social Media, Manuela Vida-Mannl (TU Dortmund, Germany)7. Embrace (Y)our Dialect Cuz T’Iz We Own Ting: A Blended (Meta)analysis of Linguistic Identity Construction in a Caribbean Instagram Dictionary, Wiebke H. Ahlers (TU Dortmund, Germany)Part III: Metalinguistic Commentary8. “Asian Accent is Awesome”: Valuing Englishes on YouTube, Sofia Rüdiger (FU Berlin, Germany) and Sven Leuckert (TU Dresden, Germany)9. Disputing Language Policing: Normalizing “Poor” English in Defensive Metalinguistic Commentaries, Vincent Wai Sum Tse (Monash University, Australia), and Andre Joseph Theng (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part IV: Discussion10. 1. Rethinking World Englishes in the Age of Social Media, Andrew Moody (University of Macau, China)ReferencesIndex