Trans-National English in Social Media Communities

• Main Author: Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Language and Globalization
• Subjects: masmédia; jazyk; sociální média; angličtina; komunity (sociologie); mass media; language; social media; English language; communities (sociology); elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9781137506153
• DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50615-3
• Physical Description: XI, 315 p. 6 illus. online resource.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities. The analysis of these communities serves not only as a comparison of online language practices, but also as a close look at how globalization phenomena and '...