Multilingual Eurovision meets plurilingual YouTube

Thorne, Steven L.; Ivković, Dejan

doi:10.1075/ds.27.06tho

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“…On the one hand, language choices are often embedded in offline cultural affiliations and beliefs. For example, language choices can perform ethnolinguistic and historical affiliations that are expressed in the context of competition between different countries and blocks of countries, such as in the discussions on the Eurovision Song Contest on YouTube (Thorne and Ivković, 2015). On the other hand, language choices can create identities and subcultures that do not emerge in the offline realm.…”

Section: Studies On Technology-mediated Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Cabras

2022

Int. J. Islam Asia

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During the last few decades, Muslim communities in China have experienced a religious revival in which belonging to a global Muslim community has been a central element. At the same time, in recent years, the State’s campaign of Sinicization of Islam (yisilan zhongguohua) has supported Chinese nationalism and targeted symbols of Islam that are alleged to distance the believers from patriotism. This study explores the capacity for texts, language, and visual choices to build and shape sociality and forms of devotion and to reflect social and political changes. The research examines visual posting on the multipurpose app Weixin (WeChat), providing insights into local forms of religiousness, self-representation, and aspirational identities of part of the Muslim community in Xining (Qinghai province, Northwest China).

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Section: Studies On Technology-mediated Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Cabras

2022

Int. J. Islam Asia

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“…This study thus draws first of all on an understanding of "linguascape" (Dovchin 2016a;Dovchin 2016b;Pennycook 2003;Rantanen 2006;Steyaert et al 2011), a term originally developed by extending the notion of "-scapes" (Appadurai 1996(Appadurai , 2001(Appadurai , 2006 to refer to "the transnational flows of linguistic resources circulating across the current world of flows, making meanings in contact with other social scapes and affecting the particular speakers' linguistic practices in varied ways" (Dovchin 2016a: 4;Dovchin 2016b). This earlier understanding of linguascape focused on the ways in which the current global cultural economy is understood in terms of non-isomorphic transnational movements of the social landscapes of people, imageries, technologies, money, and ideas (i. e. ethno-, media-, techno-, financeand ideoscapes) to demonstrate the various ways that cultural objects move across boundaries to make meaning (Thorne and Ivković 2015). As Martin-Jones and Gardner (2012) emphasize, these scapes are diversifying and integrating with one another at high speed and volume, resulting in varied new multilingual scapes.…”

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Uneven distribution of resources in the youth linguascapes of Mongolia

Dovchin

2017

Multilingua

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Drawing on offline and online casual interactions in the context of youth in Mongolia, on the Asian periphery, this article looks at youth mixed language practices from the perspective of "linguascapes" in order to capture the current flows of transnational linguistic resources in relation to other social landscapes. The study seeks to contribute to current discussions of the sociolinguistics of globalization by investigating to what extent and in what way resources make up linguascapes among youth groups with different access to resources. The main implication of this study is that youth linguascapes in Mongolia are fundamentally diverse, as a result of the combination of varied transcultural resources. At the same time, these resources are unevenly distributed and unequally localized.

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“…A number of scholars (Atkinson and Moriarty 2012;Deumert 2014; Thorne and Ivković 2015;Troyer 2012) have examined the LL of various online environments, most of them focusing first and foremost on user-generated content, or Web 2.0. This article investigates language policy on three central state websites in Norway and its development over time.…”

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‘Language is a costly and complicating factor’: a diachronic study of language policy in the virtual public sector

Berezkina

2016

Lang Policy

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This article examines language policy in the virtual linguistic landscape (VLL) in Norway and its development over time. The analysis is based on diachronic website data and interviews with state employees concerning the presence or absence of different languages on the websites of three central state institutions. The article reveals a linguistic homogenization of the VLL of the public sector in Norway, which is mostly due to the removal of immigrant languages from state websites. The analysis also shows an increased linguistic presence of Nynorsk (the less used written standard of Norwegian), of the indigenous Sámi language, and of English, which performs a 'hypercentral' function. The virtual linguistic ethnography and follow-up interviews show that the websites of the three institutions in focus exist more or less fully only in two language versions: Bokmål (the more widespread written standard of Norwegian) and English. The translations into Nynorsk and Sámi are mainly done to comply with official regulations. Furthermore, immigration, rather than leading to an increased visibility of language diversity in the VLL, can also put pressure towards homogenization. One could perhaps even go so far as to see Norway as the harbinger of change: once multilingual provision has reached a notional peak, there is a chance that more and more state institutions will cut down on 'less than necessary' languages online, opting instead for 'commonsense' English together with the respective official language(s).

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Multilingual Eurovision meets plurilingual YouTube

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Uneven distribution of resources in the youth linguascapes of Mongolia

‘Language is a costly and complicating factor’: a diachronic study of language policy in the virtual public sector

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