‘You don't have enough letters to make this noise’ : Arabic speakers' creative engagements with the Roman script
Drawing on data collected primarily among young Egyptians, in this paper I discuss script-fusing – a literacy and semiotic practice of combining letters from two scripts, in this case Arabic and Roman, within a single word. I focus on its employment in digital environments, particularly Twitter, whe...
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2020
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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