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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media around the World offers a comprehensive overview of this growing area of research through a global lens, aiming to decentre existing epistemologies and produce new lines of inquiry through a wider diversity of perspectives. With its aim of complicating and diversifying understandings of language and social media through approaches and frameworks developed both within and outside dominant North American and European traditions, the volume is organized around seven sections, each focused on a particular geocultural context. Theoretical and methodological innovations as well as case studies of language practices across Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and South Asia, which explore issues of diversities, inequalities, mobilities, creativities, and social justice, are featured. Each section includes a brief section introduction, written by a local editor with expertise in the region who brings together contributions in each section. The sections are conceived to be in dialogue with one another, reinforcing the book’s aims of generating new conversations around the decolonisation of applied linguistics. This volume is key reading for students and scholars interested in the study of language and social media in sociolinguistics, digital communication, applied linguistics, and anthropology.

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Author:   Caroline Tagg ,  Korina Giaxoglou (The Open University, UK) ,  Kristin Vold Lexander (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032419060

ISBN 10:   1032419067
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   04 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Handbook introduction Caroline Tagg, Korina Giaxoglou and Kristin V. Lexander SECTION 1 Africa: African perspectives on social media practices: literacy, politics, transnationalism, and artistic creativity Edited by Kristin V. Lexander, Adjaratou O. Sall Editors’ introduction 1 Texting as a collaborative literacy practice influenced by socio-cultural and sociolinguistic values: a Kenyan example Catherine Wawasi Kitetu 2 To keep from losing the way: connected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa Sandra Bornand and Idé Hamani 3 Journalistic rap in social media: a transnational West African practice (Le rap journalistique dans les réseaux sociaux: une pratique transnationale ouest-africaine) Moussa Diène and Mamadou Dramé 4 Political discourse and social media in Africa: online campaign, cultural politics and the #Obidient movement Innocent Chiluwa and Tolulope D. Iredele SECTION 2 Americas: Language and social media in the Americas: struggles over political participation and citizenship Edited by Ignacio José Antonio López Escarcena, Rodrigo Borba Editors’ introduction 5 Navigating pre-authorial constraints on Facebook: the “seven A’s” Lauren Zentz 6 Language and gender in YouTube comments: the case of inclusive language (lenguaje inclusivo) Juan Eduardo Bonnin and M. Florencia Rizzo 7 Researching the thematisation of inclusive language in social media Germán Canale 8 Transperipheral social media literacies: affects, ambiguities, transgressions Junot de Oliveira Maia SECTION 3 East Asia: Creating spaces of creativity and criticality: Social media in East Asia Edited by Yi Zhang, Sender Dovchin Editors’ introduction 9 Celebration of language play and humour - Translanguaging and carnivalesque literacy practices in Chinese digital space Yi Zhang 10 Instagramming the almost real: Japanese younger women and the spatiality of desire on Instagram Judit Kroo 11 Pro- and anti-social language of Korean social networking services (SNS) Eldin Malik, Ana Tankosić and Qian Gong 12 Linguistic ridicule and language ideologies on social media in Hong Kong Dennis Chau 13 The construction of national identity and the role of affect in Chinese social media Mingyi Hou, Ron Darvin and Guangxiang Liu 14 Understanding online hate speech through “grotesque realism”: Mongolia and Kazakhstan Sender Dovchin, Juldyz Samgulova, Bridget Goodman, Stephanie Dryden and Bolormaa Shinjee SECTION 4 Europe: Editors’ introduction 15 Reflecting backward, reflecting forward on social media research around Europe Maria Sindoni 16 Refugees' digital multilingual practices: insights into linguistic creativity and identity Mohammad Ateek 17 Extremism and social media Catherine Bouko 18 The production and politics of social media interfaces Lara Portmann 19 Quantified stories of illness and dying on social media Carsten Stage SECTION 5 Middle East: Postdigital Middle East societies: interfacing online and offline dimensions of social media Edited by Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama Editors’ introduction 20 The postdigital constitution of touristscapes: the Dubai travel app Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama 21 Digitized confessional discourse: the case of Cairo Confessions Amany Y.A.A. Youseff 22 Diasporic identities at the online/offline juncture: insights from a postdigital ethnography of the Nubian diaspora Rania Magdi Fawzy, Amany El Shazly, Heba Morsi and Lubna Sherif 23 The postdigital turn and multimodal hermeneutics of Saudization in online advertising discourse Amir H.Y. Salama SECTION 6 Oceania: Editors’ introduction 24 Melanesia in the digital age: langauge practices in social media and their interaction with language ideology and perception Leslie Vandeputte 25 Language contact phenomena on social media: perspectives from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English Andreea Calude and David Tyre 26 Weaving translocal solidarity: examining the role of social media in sovereignty and demilitarization activism in Guåhan Manuel Cruz 27 Rethinking critical digital literacies education across Oceania: Disrupting the legacies of colonialism Fiona Willans SECTION 7 South Asia: Social media as a space of resistance and digital linguistic citizenship in South Asia Edited by Shaila Sultana and Obaid Editors’ introduction 28 Language shaming on social media in Nepal Bal Krishna Sharma and Pramod K. Sah 29 “Sickular” and “bhakt” as polarized categories: the making of a Hindutva digital sphere on Indian Twitter (X) Rahul Sambaraju 30 Language of resistance and social justice: a case study of Pakistani digital ethnic speech communities Muhammad Shaban Rafi and Iram Amjad 31 Reciprocity between social media discourses and social movements in Bangladesh Al Muhmud Rumman and Shaila Sultana 32 “Listen to the lama”: analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practices Dorji Wangchuk and Todd L. Sandel Postscript Ana Deumert Index

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Caroline Tagg is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK. Korina Giaxoglou is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK. Kristin Vold Lexander is Associate Professor in Norwegian Language at the University of Inland Norway.

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