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Volume 2 offers nine additional chapters exemplifying the multilingualism approach and transfer approach including research into intercultural competences. Together, the chapters illustrate the essence of the essentialism and non-essentialism debate regarding diversity and inclusion.
Volume 2 offers nine additional chapters exemplifying the multilingualism approach and transfer approach including research into intercultural competences. Together, the chapters illustrate the essence of the essentialism and non-essentialism debate regarding diversity and inclusion.
Therefore, everyone involved in language policy, education, economics and development, geography, development or area studies and African studies will benefit from such a holistic and innovative overview.
Therefore, everyone involved in language policy, education, economics and development, geography, development or area studies and African studies will benefit from such a holistic and innovative overview.
Abstract
Today, digital discourse has become a mode of communication that is both widespread and global, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. WhatsApp-supported communication is thus gradually attracting the attention of researchers. The present volume seeks to contribute to this field of linguistics by providing a critical review of the state-of-the-art of WhatsApp studies. With this aim in mind, different types of sources were evaluated and the retrieved documents were classified into two main thematic domains. On the one hand, references that focused on WhatsApp linguistic characteristics were included: status notifications, multimodal elements such as emojis or memes and language variations, among others. On the other, works that described the use of WhatsApp to learn English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL) were reviewed. Based on this critical literature review, it was possible to detect relevant lines of future research.
Language and Computers - Studies in Digital Linguistics invites contributions which
- explore innovative, intelligent and creative ways of using digital language data, resources and infrastructure for linguistic description
- contribute to the development and refinement of usage-based models in linguistics, using both quantitative and qualitative methods
- analyse all aspects of digitally mediated communication, from orthography to pragmatics and sociolinguistics