Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Cativerse
- 2 The Feline Territory of Language
- 3 Meowlogisms
- 4 Da Kittehz
- 5 Virtual Furever Homes
- 6 Multimeowdality
- 7 Meow and More
- 8 Going on Pawtrol
- 9 Linguistic Scratching Posts
- 10 #StatsWithCats
- 11 Cattitude and Purrception
- Appendix Meowscellaneous
- References
- Clawssary
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Cativerse
- 2 The Feline Territory of Language
- 3 Meowlogisms
- 4 Da Kittehz
- 5 Virtual Furever Homes
- 6 Multimeowdality
- 7 Meow and More
- 8 Going on Pawtrol
- 9 Linguistic Scratching Posts
- 10 #StatsWithCats
- 11 Cattitude and Purrception
- Appendix Meowscellaneous
- References
- Clawssary
- Index
Summary
The chapter ’Meow and More’ lead us to the sociolinguistic concepts of code, code-switching, bilingualism, and multilingualism. It describes transnational communication, polylanguaging, translanguaging, and networked multilingualism by using cat-related examples, going over the technological aspects of computer-mediated communication to show how technology affects multilingual online discourse. The chapter also illustrates how we use language to construct our identity in the cat-related digital spaces.
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- Purrieties of LanguageHow We Talk about Cats Online, pp. 173 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023