Digital Orality

Cecelia Cutler is a Professor in the Linguistics Program at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA. May Ahmar is a Senior Lecturer in discipline in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department at Columbia University, New York, USA.Soubeika Bahri is an Instructor in the Modern Language Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.

“Brief description of the rationale behind the structure of the book is provided in the overall introduction, a dedicated theoretically framed opening for each major part is a useful aid to the reader in recognizing the theoretical and methodological correspondence of the individual chapters as the reason for grouping them together. I believe that engaging with the ideas of intersectionality and genre would make for useful introductions to each set of the chapters” (Alwin C. Aguirre, Language in Society, Vol. 53 (2), 2024)

• Chapter 1: Introduction: A New Orality in the Digital Age.- Part I: Political and Identity Stances.- Chapter 2: Digital Orality? Reimagining and Reclaiming Vernacular Pronunciations Through Digitally Mediated Communication.- Chapter 3: Ettounsi and Tamazight Writing on Facebook: Oral Vernaculars or New Literacies.- Chapter 4: Ettounsi and Tamazight Writing on Facebook: Oral Vernaculars or New Literacies.- Chapter 5: Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Transcription of Shanghai Wu Dialect on the Internet.- Part II: Performances of accents and styles.- Chapter 6: Orality, Alignment, and Stance in YouTube Comments About the New York City Accent.- Chapter 7: How Many s in Wales? Performing a Welsh Accent on Twitter.- Chapter 8: “You’re in the gym to BUILD IT BIG, not have social hour”: Performing Dumb Jock Masculinity on a Male Erotic Hypnosis Messageboard.- Chapter 9: Performing Politeness in Online Dating: How Orthographic Choices Signal Relationship Status.- Chapter 10: Implications of Digital Orality and New Directions.