Publications
Publication details [#58091]
Bock, Zannie. 2013. Cyber socialising: Emerging genres and registers of intimacy among young South African students. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 44 (2) : 68–91. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This discourse analysis examines the simultaneously fluid and conventionalised MXit (intimate) chatting registers and genres used by first-year Linguistics students of the Western Cape University, allowing users to design for themselves identities that join global sophistication and local situatedness.