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Publication details [#58720]
Heyd, Theresa. 2014. Folk-linguistic landscapes: The visual semiotics of digital enregisterment. Language in Society 43 (6) : 489–514. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores folk-linguistic photo blogging as a specimen of twenty-first-century bottom-up prescriptivism. Via the undisguised or concealed language policing contained in such exhibits, folk-linguistic photo blogs add to the digital recording of the linguistic practices they concentrate on as nonstandard or unschooled. This process is closely investigated in a case study on emphatic quotation marks, a nonstandard punctuation form which has been labelled ‘greengrocer's quotes’, and its attendant folk-linguistic photo blog.