Memes and world Englishes

Spilioti, Tereza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-3043 2025. Memes and world Englishes. Bolton, Kingsley, ed. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes, Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1-9. (10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00046)

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Abstract

Internet memes are produced through imitation, as they spread rapidly within and across online networks. The study of world Englishes in memic communication reveals that not only are Englishes embedded in global meme templates but they are also used on their own as textual stylistic memes. The role of script and its meaning-making potential in digital communication also prove important in the resemiotisation of memes and give rise to new forms of digital, hybrid and weird Englishes. In addition to humour and phatic communion, world Englishes memes can also be used to voice local indexicalities and generate metalinguistic commentary where online users express diverse language attitudes and ideologies.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PE English
Publisher:	Wiley Blackwell
ISBN:	9781119518310
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2025 09:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177495

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