36.2513, Books: The Cultural Politics of Digital User Experience Writing: Portmann (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Cultural Politics of Digital User Experience Writing: Portmann (2025)


Title: The Cultural Politics of Digital User Experience Writing
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/cultural-politics-digital-user-experience-writing?format=HB&isbn=9781009540582

Author(s): Lara Portmann

Hardback ISBN:  9781009540582 Pages:  220 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009540582 Pages:  220 Price: Europe EURO 116.71
Hardback ISBN:  9781009540582 Pages:  220 Price: U.S. $ 130.00

Abstract:

User experience (UX) writers are the professionals who create the
verbal content of websites, apps, or other software interfaces,
including error messages, help texts, software instructions, or button
labels that we all see and engage with every day. This invisible yet
highly influential language work has been largely ignored by
sociocultural linguists. The book addresses this gap, examining the
broader cultural politics of digital media through an exploration of
the linguistic production and purposeful design of interface texts. It
discusses UX writing as an influential contemporary domain of language
work and shows how the specific practices and processes that structure
this work shape the norms that become embedded in software interfaces.
It highlights the nature of UX writing, its (meta)pragmatic
organization, and its cultural-political implications. Foregrounding
the voices and perspectives of language workers, it is essential
reading for anyone interested in how language shapes the way people
use digital media.

Written In: English (eng)



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