‘You don't have enough letters to make this noise’ : Arabic speakers' creative engagements with the Roman script

• Main Author: Panović, Ivan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Arabic; Arabic Script
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141225
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...