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Creating a Unique Transnational Place: Deterritorialized Discourse and the Blending of Time and Space in Online Social Media

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Christiansen, M. Sidury – Written Communication, 2017

This study describes how members of a transnational social network of Mexican bilinguals living in Chicago manipulate their language on online social media to facilitate and maintain close connections across borders. Using a discourse-centered online ethnographic approach, I examine conversations posted on members' Facebook walls and the contexts…

Descriptors: Social Networks, Mexican Americans, Discourse Analysis, Bilingualism

Features of Digital African American Language in a Social Network Site

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Cunningham, Jennifer M. – Written Communication, 2014

This study examines a social network site (SNS) where specific interlocutors communicate by combining aspects of academic American English (AE), digital language (DL), and African American Language (AAL)--creating a digital form of AAL or digital AAL (DAAL). This article describes the features of DAAL in the discursive, online context of MySpace,…

Descriptors: Social Networks, African American Culture, Web Sites, Discourse Communities