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Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: re-framing minority language use in socia media
Date
2019
Abstract
Considering that social media is increasingly present in our daily communicative exchanges, digital presence is an essential component of language revitalization and maintenance. Online communication has modified our language use in various ways. In fact, language use online is often described as hybrid, and boundaries across languages tend to blur. These are also characteristics of translanguaging approaches, which see language as fluid codes of communication. “Breathing spaces” are needed in order to achieve “sustainable translanguaging” practices for minority languages. The establishment of communities of performing minority language speakers in a digital environment raises the question whether these emerging virtual communities can take up the role of breathing spaces for minority languages.
Supervisor
Description
peer-reviewed
Publisher
Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Slavic Studies
Citation
Adeptus;article: 1968
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