Society in digital contexts: New modes of identity and community construction

Abstract

I am indebted to Jan Blommaert for coming up with the original special issue title "Society in Language," as opposed to the traditional ideology "Language in Society." The former stresses the need to upend sociolinguistic theory as we know and practice it. I later changed the title to

Negative Impoliteness and Reconstruction of Identity: Cyberpragmatics Analysis of Palestinian Conflict News Comments on Arab Youtube Channel

“…Viewed from the perspective of speech content, the study's results confirmed the study's findings (Al Zidjaly, 2012, 2019b, 2019aKhosravinik & Sarkhoh, 2017;Labben, 2018)I draw on contemporary theorizing on the concept of face (e.g., Ting-Toomey 1994, 2004Tracy 2008. Negative impoliteness speech in data sources aims to reconstruct Arab identity to deal with various aggressions from foreign countries. According to the findings of (Al Zidjaly, 2012Zidjaly, , 2019aZidjaly, , 2019bI draw on contemporary theorizing on the concept of face (e.g., Ting-Toomey 1994, 2004 Tracy 2008, the speeches reflect the confusion of Arab identity, so they need the construction of a new community mediated by the internet. In line with that, existing speeches no longer focus on personal face-to-face attacks, but more than that to have sociocultural implications (El-Falaky, 2019;Gerbaudo, 2012;Sumiala & Korpiola, 2017).…”

“…This complexity is also a challenge for linguistic studies on social media, especially Youtube (Arthurs et al, 2018;Kern et al, 2016;Snelson et al, 2012). In humanitarian conflicts in various Arab countries, social media has been used as a medium of resistance and social solidarity (Al Zidjaly, 2019b;Eren-Erdoğmuş & Ergun, 2017;Harlow, 2012;Hwang & Kim, 2015;Zidjaly, 2019). This study will be interesting because it explores new data that is different from the existing studies.…”

Human Mobility, Sociolinguistic Diversity, and Social Sustainability in Rural Areas: Insights from Indonesian Transmigrant Communities

“…This particular study is based on the ethnography of the Manggelewa community (see Figure 2). Al Zidjaly [36] maintains that it is a culture and context that is "underrepresented" and recommends an urgent sociolinguistic study. The information used in the study was collected in at least two phases of data collection: informal and formal data collection.…”

“…The Samawa, Sasak, and Balinese might be the minority in Manggelewa, but they are the majority in their respective settlements. The ethnic labels above may possibly represent what Al Zidjaly [36] attributed to the languages in society and that these circumstances highlight the correct use of the ethnic languages in their linguistic landscape. Following the ideas established by de Swaan [46], we can recognize that Bahasa Campuran [Indonesian: mixed language] is the supervernacular [17] used for the oral and written interethnic communication together with the ethnic languages which are employed peripherally in the oral intra-ethnic interaction.…”

Investigating English in Multilingual Contexts Online: Identity Construction in Geotagged Instagram Data

“…The language practices in these repertoires are then utilized to construct space, a social and affective construct as opposed to place, a primordial geographical construct (Canagarajah, 2020: 559). In the study of transnational and translingual practices, it is important to document small scale contexts and their entanglement with global dynamics (Al Zidjali, 2019). This is what the current study aims at by documenting a relatively small space, i.e., Zanzibar, and its entanglement with the global dynamics of tourism.…”