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  • Chapter 7 - Internet Speak Is the Best, Don’t @ Me

  • from Part II - Understanding Cultural Norms and References
  • Vered Shwartz, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book:
    Lost in Automatic Translation
    Published online:
    08 October 2025
    Print publication:
    21 August 2025, pp 115-136

  • Summary

    Although the internet has removed geographical boundaries, transforming the world into a global village, English is still the most dominant language online. New forms of online communication such as emoji and memes have become an integral part of internet language. While it’s tempting to think of such visual communication formats as removing the cultural barriers – after all, emoji appear like a universal alphabet – their interpretation may rely on cultural references.

How We Talk about Language
  • Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics
  • Betsy Rymes
  • Published online:
    07 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020
  • The most important challenges humans face - identity, life, death, war, peace, the fate of our planet - are manifested and debated through language. This book provides the intellectual and practical tools we need to analyse how people talk about language, how we can participate in those conversations, and what we can learn from them about both language and our society. Along the way, we learn that knowledge about language and its connection to social life is not primarily produced and spread by linguists or sociolinguists, or even language teachers, but through everyday conversations, on-line arguments, creative insults, music, art, memes, twitter-storms - any place language grabs people's attention and foments more talk. An essential new aid to the study of the relationship between language, culture and society, this book provides a vision for language inquiry by turning our gaze to everyday forms of language expertise.