Peer Normativity and Sanctioning of Linguistic Resources-in-Use — on Non-Standard Englishes in Finnish Football Forums Online

Race, ethnicity and ‘African-ness’ in football discourse – perspectives in the age of superdiversity 1

“…By football discourse I mean text and talk about different aspects of the game and football culture (Kytölä 2012(Kytölä , 2013Kytölä & Westinen 2015). Sites of football discourse are, then, discursive spaces and sites of social action where categorizations, identifications and disidentifications are made (Leppänen et al 2014;Leppänen et al 2017).…”

“…How much 'African-ness', or how many black players, can be allowed in a European national team squad? From a larger research project on digital media (including institutional media such as newspapers and television), my empirical nexus points in digital social media for the research reported here come mainly from two main hubs for Finland-based football discussion: Futisforum and Futisforum2.org (for more, see Kytölä 2012Kytölä , 2013.…”

The Language of Social Media

“…blogs, web discussion forums; see e.g. Kytölä, 2012aKytölä, , 2012b. Thus, in our orientation, social media include, besides social network sites, other digital environments in which interaction between the participants constitutes an important part of their activities.…”

“…Three key arguments inspire and give direction to our discussion, each of them laying down touchstones for language scholars who wish to investigate identity in social media. First, for many individuals and social or cultural groups, social media are increasingly significant grassroots arenas for interaction and cultural activities (Androutsopoulos, 2011;Kytölä, 2012aKytölä, , 2012bLeppänen, 2012;Peuronen, 2011) which overlap, complement and intertwine in different ways with their offline activities. Importantly, social media encompass a range of diverse formats for social action, interaction and performance; thus they can be 'social' in quite different ways (see Baym, 2011, pp.…”

Entextualization and resemiotization as resources for identification in social media

“…Three key arguments inspire and give direction to our discussion, each of them laying down touchstones for language scholars who wish to investigate identity in social media. First, for many individuals and social or cultural groups, social media are increasingly significant grassroots arenas for interaction and cultural activities (Androutsopoulos, 2011;Kytölä, 2012aKytölä, , 2012bLeppänen, 2012;Peuronen, 2011) which overlap, complement and intertwine in different ways with their offline activities. Importantly, social media encompass a range of diverse formats for social action, interaction and performance; thus they can also be 'social' in quite different ways (cf.…”