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Title
Broadcasting your Variety - Namibian English(es) on YouTube |
Full text
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2961304 |
Date
2021 |
Author(s)
Zähres, Frederic ; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6570-7128; Schröder, Anne |
Abstract
Zähres F. Broadcasting your Variety - Namibian English(es) on YouTube. In: Schröder A, ed. <em>The Dynamics of English in Namibia. Perspectives on an Emerging Variety</em>. Varieties of English Around the World. Vol G65. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company; 2021: 135-167. - This chapter investigates the viability of YouTube data for the World Englishes research context by introducing a Namibian YouTuber community and presenting challenges and opportunities of this mostly uncharted medium. An acoustic phonetic case study of Namibian English is conducted with a small sample corpus of YouTube data from 2018, in which vowels relevant to the Southern African context (e.g. nurse, kit, dress, trap) of two groups of content creators are analyzed. While researchers face methodological challenges on YouTube during data collection and analysis, the results of the acoustic analyses presented show that the formal and informal speech styles found on YouTube constitute an accessible and rich type of data that can reaffirm and complement findings based on traditional approaches. |
Subject(s)
YouTube; digital ethnography; phonetics; phonology; vowels |
Language
eng |
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Relation
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1075/veaw.g65.07zah; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0172-7362; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/978 90 272 0919 1 |
Type of publication
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248; info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart; doc-type:bookPart; text |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
Repository
Bielefeld - University of Bielefeld
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