36.2020, Books: Language, Literature and Social Media: A Spectrum of Discourses in Times of Crises: Tabe and Tasah (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 29-Jun-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Language, Literature and Social Media: A Spectrum of Discourses in Times of Crises: Tabe and Tasah (eds.) (2024)

Title: Language, Literature and Social Media: A Spectrum of Discourses
in Times of Crises
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language and Culture 08
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392195%22

Editor(s): Camilla Arundie Tabe & James Ngoin Tasah

14,8 x 21 cm. ISBN 9783969392195. LINCOM Studies in Language and
Culture 08. 248pp. Euro 72.80.

Abstract:

This is a valuable book on social media as valued channels for
information dissemination with positive and negative implications in
language and Literature. Social media provides an excess of
conflicting and often imprecise information which can be both
inadvertent and deliberately propagated by individuals and groups.
Today all crises are inconspicuously communicated through social
media, which are widely accepted platforms for public information
exchange and crises management communication. This book emphases on
the potential of language, literature and social media in fueling or
solving such crises. It is composed of two parts.
Part one focuses on language and literature and comprises ten
chapters. The authors describe language and the cascading effects of
crises such as the Russian-Ukraine war, the Anglophone crisis in
Cameroon, the Ngarbuh massacre in southern Cameroon and the ethnic
conflict between the Mousgoums and Arab Choas in the Far North region
of Cameroon.
Part two has two chapters devoted to literature and social media, and
online criminality and sex tape scandals are explored by the scholars.
The researchers in this volume have reported the quandaries with
evidence from a plethora of social media platforms in African,
European and American contexts. They look at how some of the
calamities are relayed through social media and how society respond to
them. They show that social media have changed the landscape of crises
management considerable over recent years with possibilities for
social action now becoming reality. But there is a compelling and
powerful way to drive stability in society amidst social media
presence. This book is a page turner as it proposes innovative
language and literature solutions in overcoming crises that are worth
discovering.
Contents:
James N. Tasah
The Revitalization of Cameroonian languages through their use in
Social Media: A case study of Fulfulde in Maroua
Camilla Arundie Tabe & Peniel Zaazra Nouhou
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Internet Posts on the Russian-Ukraine
War
Nanche Billa Robert
Internet-Based Reporting of the Ngarbuh Massacre in the Southern
Cameroon Crisis: Themes and Language Use
Faissam Warda & Jean Etapa
The pragmatics of mock (im)politeness in some Nigerian online comedies
Binwe Emmanuel & Joefrey Ngha Fuh Nji
A Semiotic Analysis of the Ethnic Conflict between the Mousgoums and
Arab Choas as conveyed on Social Media in 2021
Njofie Isaac Fieze
Facebook Discourse as a Catalyse to the Escalation of the Anglophone
Crisis in Cameroon
Fombo Emmanuel
Hate Speech on Social Media: The Case of the 2018 Presidential
Elections in Cameroon
Jean-Paul Kouega & Ngum Zephaniah Bailak
Internet Language Features of some Students of the University of
Yaounde I: An investigation into Chat Group Written Discourse
Kolaouna Zaoussou Eugene
Social Media and Contribution to political vitality: A case study of
Interventions on ‟Mouvement 10 millions de nordistes - officiel
Facebook Platforms”
Joseph Nkwain
A Netnographic Reading of some Pleonastic Cameroonianisms
Part Two: Literature and Social Media
Ngong Joseph  Sam
Cyber Criminality in Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires and
Kevin Mitnick’s Ghost in the Wires
Ophilia A. Abianji-Menang
Social Media and Sex Tape Scandals: Objectifying Women in Cameroon’s
Cyberspace

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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