TY - BOOK AU - Amaya,Lucía Fernández TI - A Linguistic Overview of WhatsApp Communication T2 - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences SN - 9789004519060 AV - P121 U1 - 410 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Language acquisition KW - Linguistics KW - Language and linguistics N1 - Digital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. This book offers a critical state-of-the-art review of WhatsApp linguistic studies; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linguistic Characteristics of WhatsApp Communication -- 3 WhatsApp as a Language Learning Tool for EFL/ESL -- 4 Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Studies on WhatsApp Linguistic Traits -- Appendix 2. EFL/ESL Studies -- References -- Index N2 - Digital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. This book offers a critical state-of-the-art review of WhatsApp linguistic studies. After evaluating a wide range of sources, seeking to identify relevant works, two major thematic domains were found. On the one hand, references addressing WhatsApp linguistic characteristics: status notifications, multimodal elements such as emojis or memes, language variation, among others. On the other, the volume offers an overview of references describing the use of WhatsApp to learn English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL). The author provides a broad critical review of previous works to date, which has enabled her to detect areas of research still unexplored UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004519060 ER -