Autochthonous heritage languages and social media: writing and bilingual practices in Low German on Facebook

Reershemius, Gertrud

doi:10.1080/01434632.2016.1151434

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“…After the participants filled out the questionnaire, I collected the participants' writing on Facebook in the form of their status updates written by the participants on Facebook within six months. Following Kapranov (2014) and Reershemius (2017), the period of time of six months was deemed sufficient and representative of the participants' writing on SNS. In addition, a post-hoc questionnaire was distributed to the participants after the data collection was completed (see Table 4 in section 2.5.1).…”

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“…The methodology of data collection was based upon the methodological premises described by Reershemius (2017). Her data collection involved gathering screenbased and user-based data on Facebook.…”

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“…This continuum may encompass the borrowing of DMs from one language to another, the insertions of DMs from the bilingual's language into another, and, possibly, novel coinages of DMs in bilingual discourse. Presumably, code-switching and/ or code-mixing would be represented in the bilinguals' writing on social networking sites, since this type of discourse is typically characterised as facilitative of codeswitching (Reershemius 2017). This assumption is echoed by Androutsopoulos (2015), who argues that computer-mediated communication (CMC) and, in particular, social networking sites are a rich arena of multilingualism and code-switching (Androutsopoulos 2015: 187).…”

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Discourse markers in online writing by early balanced English/Italian bilinguals

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2019

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This article presents a case study concerning the use of discourse markers (further -'DMs') in the writing of status updates on Facebook by a group of early balanced English/Italian bilinguals (further -'participants'), who were born in Australia in the families of Italian immigrants. The corpus of the participants' status updates on Facebook was analysed by means of the WordSmith software for linguistic analysis (Scott 2008) in order to identify the frequency of DMs used by the participants in the English and Italian languages, respectively. The results of the data analysis indicated that the participants employed, predominantly, English DMs (for instance, and, but, though, and yep), while the repertoire of the Italian DMs was limited to diciamo (English equivalents, e.g. let's say, I mean), ecco (English equivalents, e.g. here, well), and ma (English equivalents, e.g., but, yet). These findings are further presented and discussed in the article.

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2019

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“…(3) Prospects: Future research on networks should broaden the view to include digital networks. The effects of digital mediatization are manifold (Reershemius 2017), and the question is repeatedly raised as to whether Web 2.0 can lead to new "communities of practice" and thus new forms of using smaller languages (Kelly- Holmes and Atkinson 2017;Crystal 2001). As we have seen, communication needs partners, and understanding requires shared practices such as in Communities of Practice (CofP).…”

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A Long-Lasting CofP of New and Native Speakers—Practices, Identities of Belonging and Motives for Participation

Arendt

2021

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Within sociolinguistic research on small languages like Low German, differentiation into new and native speakers has become established. The relationship between the two different groups of speakers is sometimes conceptualized as an insurmountable “gap”. In addition to different acquisition paths and competencies, identity discourses of belonging, authority and authenticity, as well as typical practices, are all crucial elements of these differences. Despite these differences, the intergenerational language-centered analog community of practice (CofP) “Plattdüütschkring” consisting of approximately 10 new and native speakers of the regional language Low German has existed since 2005. This article is based on an explorative case-study analyzing the network “Plattdüütschkring” as an example of successful cooperation between new speakers and native speakers on the basis of typical attitudes and linguistic practices. In order to gain authentic, subjectively experienced insights into identities, normative conceptions and individual language experiences within and outside the network, meta-linguistic reflections of the members themselves were analyzed. These meta-linguistic reflections were collected through narrative interviews with the same and different members at the two survey dates 2010/11 and 2020. The findings show norms of monolingual language use, narrative identities of a normative hierarchy of acquisition scenarios and competences as aspects of belonging. Social and learning-oriented and thus multiple individually appropriate functions of the network can explain the motivation for long-term membership. These outcomes help to understand the role of language attitudes in CofP in the language development of small languages as well as abstract characteristics of successful language-centered networks.

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“…Scholars have taken different approaches and stances when researching this topic, such as the study of bi-/multilingual practices (Reershemius, 2017), discourse construction (Tagg & Seargeant, 2015), identity construction (Díaz, 2011), language activism (Teruelle, 2012), language awareness (Belmar, 2018;Warren & Jennings, 2015), language in education (Leeson & Sheikh, 2007;Reinhardt, 2017), language vitality (Jongbloed-Faber, Van de Velde, Meer, & Klinkenberg, 2016), linguistic landscape (Ivkovic & Lotherington, 2008), socialization (Reinhardt & Thorne, 2017), language revitalization (Paricio-Martín & Martínez-Cortés, 2010), language promotion (Bonsey, 2018), language ideologies (Davis-Deacon, 2018; Szczepankiewicz, 2018), language use (Belmar, in press-a;Belmar, in press-b;Belmar & Heyen, 2019;Keegan, Mato, & Ruru, 2015;Lillehaugen, 2016;McMonagle, Cunliffe, Jongbloed-Faber, & Jarvis, 2019;Pischlöger, 2016), translation (Scannell, 2012), and language policy (Jones & Uribe-Jongbloed, 2013) In fact, many have argued that if minority languages are to survive in the long run they need to achieve a significant presence online (Soria, 2016). Among others, digital presence is said to raise awareness of linguistic diversity among the wider public, to create a more "modern" image of the minority language, to encourage language use by boosting the speaker's confidence to use their language (Jones, 2013).…”

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Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media

Belmar

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2019

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Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social mediaConsidering 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. Społeczności wirtualne jako przestrzeń życiowa dla języków mniejszościowych. Nowe spojrzenie na używanie języków mniejszościowych w mediach społecznościowychPonieważ media społecznościowe są coraz bardziej obecne w codziennej komunikacji, obecność języków mniejszościowych w świecie cyfrowym jest niezbędnym elementem dla ich zachowania i rewitalizacji. Komunikacja online przyniosła zmiany wielu aspektów użycia języka. Używanie języka w Internecie często określa się jako hybrydowe, a granice między językami często się zacierają. Te zjawiska cechuje również transjęzyczność (translanguaging), podejście które postrzega język jako płynne kody komunikacji. W przypadku języków mniejszościowych, osiągnięcie „zrównoważonej transjęzyczności” (sustainable translanguaging) wymaga „przestrzeni życiowej” do ich używania. Tworzenie wirtualnych społeczności posługujących się językami mniejszościowymi w świecie cyfrowym rodzi pytanie, czy mogąone pełnić rolę takiej przestrzeni.

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Autochthonous heritage languages and social media: writing and bilingual practices in Low German on Facebook

Cited by 61 publications

References 53 publications

Discourse markers in online writing by early balanced English/Italian bilinguals

Discourse markers in online writing by early balanced English/Italian bilinguals

A Long-Lasting CofP of New and Native Speakers—Practices, Identities of Belonging and Motives for Participation

Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media

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