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Alexander Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A new generation is growing up who have known the internet for their entire lives. More people incorporate social media into more aspects of our lives, including how we learn and negotiate our identities. While formal online classrooms such as MOOCs are a part of the picture, learning also occurs in informal settings such as affinity groups'…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Language Usage
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Kellie Gonçalves; Kristin Vold Lexander – AILA Review, 2023
Questions surrounding mobility and migration are often connected to matters of language, citizenship, socio-economic status and class that are inherently unequal between developed and less-developed nation states. Scholars of geography and demographics have conceptualized both internal and external/international migration with "push" and…
Descriptors: Life Style, Mobility, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Assaggaf, Hussein Taha – Arab World English Journal, 2019
WhatsApp has significantly penetrated the various spheres of peoples' lives all over the world. The purpose of this study is to look at two aspects of WhatsApp text-based status notifications; namely, the most common discursive realizations and the major pragmatic themes. A sample of 846 status notifications for WhatsApp users' profiles was…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Pragmatics, Profiles
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Mas-Alcolea, Sònia; Torres-Purroy, Helena – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Many scholars have highlighted the great variability of second language acquisition outcomes and, thus, the inconsistencies and inconclusiveness in the study abroad literature. These have called for longitudinal, case-based research that focuses on the students' processes (rather than outcomes) and that showcases the heterogeneity of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Study Abroad, Case Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Pfurtscheller, Daniel – AILA Review, 2020
Focusing on Facebook pages from public broadcasters in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, this paper looks at ways in which written quotations and snippets of news are reused and shared in social media posts. Drawing on recent theorization of digital quotations as recontextualized discourse, the study deals with a specific genre of digital news:…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Programming (Broadcast), Cross Cultural Studies
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Blommaert, Jan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
The hashtag #justsaying is one of Twitter's global stock hashtags. The hashtag is nontopical and appears to fulfil a complex range of metapragmatic framing functions. In this paper, I shall look at Dutch-language tweets in which the hashtag is being used as a fully enregistered 'translingual' framing device, and I will attempt an analysis focused…
Descriptors: Social Media, Indo European Languages, Pragmatics, Phrase Structure
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Ning, Ruochen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Social networks have been investigated as an important factor to understand social and language innovations for decades. Most researchers focus on one-language-dominated societies when studying social networks' influence on language practice while studies on bilingual societies remain scarce. In this study, we examine how Chinese graduate students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, Asians
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Christiansen, M. Sidury – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article examines Facebook conversations between members of a transnational social network of US- and Mexico-born English/Spanish bilinguals. Extending Bourdieu's theory of language and symbolic power, the article uses the framework of language ideologies to explore how members establish identity and membership differently depending on whether…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Bilingualism, Spanish
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Reershemius, Gertrud – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This article analyses how speakers of an autochthonous heritage language (AHL) make use of digital media, through the example of Low German, a regional language used by a decreasing number of speakers mainly in northern Germany. The focus of the analysis is on Web 2.0 and its interactive potential for individual speakers. The study therefore…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, German, Language Variation
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Androutsopoulos, Jannis – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This paper introduces the term 'trans-scripting' to examine fleeting, socially unstable practices of writing a language in a non-canonical script. As a theoretical notion, trans-scripting conceives of script as a semiotic resource whose situated choice and sequential alternation can create discursive meaning. The case study is on 'Hellenized…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Semiotics, Written Language, Case Studies
Londhe, Nikhil – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The ubiquitous hashtag has disruptively transformed how news stories are reported and shared across social media networks. Often, such text streams are massively multilingual with 50 different languages on an average and contain a combination of subjective user opinion, objective evolving information about the story and unrelated spam. This is in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Media, Social Networks, Grammar
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Valentina, Christodoulou; Elena, Ioannidou – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
The paper reports on the results of a case study of a Year 9 class in a multilingual urban school. The study investigates issues of negotiation, accessibility and (legitimacy of) rights in the classroom's dominant discourse and more specifically the ways in which the Year 9 students of a Private English School in Cyprus negotiate their identity…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Usage, Multilingualism, Urban Schools
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Cortés, Sara; García-Pernía, María Ruth; de la Fuente, Julián; Martínez-Borda, Rut; Lacasa, Pilar – Digital Education Review, 2018
The goal of this paper is to analyze the creative processes undertaken in a community of teenagers participating in entertainment workshops designed to develop digital literacies. The main goal is to outline support strategies to generate digital literacy among young people who participate in social networks. We adopt an ethnographic and action…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Technological Literacy, Workshops, Social Networks
Moore, Randi Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
How are linguistic and cognitive practices shared among individuals (and more broadly) populations and cultures? Further, how are cognitive strategies shared at the local level? Li and colleagues (Li & Gleitman 2002; Li et al 2011; "inter alia") suggest that the variation observed in reference frame practices among populations of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Linguistic Theory, Spatial Ability, Preferences
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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
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