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7 - Meow and More

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

Edith Podhovnik
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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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bilingualismmultilingualismcodedomains of language usemultilingual online discoursecodecode-switchingtransnational communicationnetworked multilingualismpolylanguagingtranslanguagingidentityidentity construction
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Purrieties of Language
How We Talk about Cats Online
 , pp. 173 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Meow and More
  • Edith Podhovnik
  • Book: Purrieties of Language
  • Online publication: 06 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918909.007
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  • Meow and More
  • Edith Podhovnik
  • Book: Purrieties of Language
  • Online publication: 06 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918909.007
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  • Meow and More
  • Edith Podhovnik
  • Book: Purrieties of Language
  • Online publication: 06 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918909.007
Available formats
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