Description
This Element provides a comprehensive analysis of language ideologies and identity construction among Southern Caribbean users on Facebook and TikTok. Author Guyanne Wilson investigates how digital spaces become sites for linguistic negotiation, cultural expression, and identity performance.
The book explores how speakers navigate multiple language varieties, dialects, and English creoles while constructing social identities online. Wilson examines the sociolinguistic practices of Caribbean communities in the digital age, considering how platform affordances, audience design, and algorithmic features shape language choices and ideological stances. The work contributes to broader understandings of World Englishes, digital sociolinguistics, and Caribbean language studies, offering insights into how marginalized language varieties gain visibility and prestige through social media.
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