As part of the DIHIS project, Dr. Fernández-Amaya published the first linguistic overview of WhatsApp communication, a book that may help students, researchers and those interested in this social app to understand the way language is shaped and the extent to which discourse is transformed to adapt to the digital world.
Digital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. A Linguistic Overview of WhatsApp Communication (Brill, 2022) offers a critical state-of-the-art review of WhatsApp linguistic studies. After evaluating a wide range of sources, and seeking to identify relevant works, two major thematic domains were found. On the one hand, references addressing WhatsApp linguistic characteristics: status notifications, multimodal elements such as emojis or memes, and language variation, among others. On the other, the volume offers an overview of references describing the use of WhatsApp to learn English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL). The author provides a broad critical review of previous works to date, which has enabled her to detect areas of research as yet unexplored.
Full reference:
- Fernández-Amaya, Lucía (2022). A Linguistic Overview of WhatsApp Communication. Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics. Brill. DOI:10.1163/9789004519060
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A Linguistic Overview of WhatsApp Communication | Brill
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