Conventionalised Impoliteness towards Perceived ESL Users on 4chan

Siegel (2018) suggests that language can be used as an identity marker for an individual. This seems to be the case on 4chan, an anonymous image board where certain users are labelled as ‘ESL’ even though there are no information regarding their ethnicity, nationality, or languages spoken. Users wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Modern Languages
Main Author: Mohamad Ammar Rosli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2018-12-01
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Online Access:https://ajap.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/15609