2019
DOI: 10.11649/a.1968
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Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media

Abstract: 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 a… Show more

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“…In recent decades, representatives of minority ethnic groups and politicians in Russia and abroad have frequently insisted on educating representatives of national minority groups solely in their mother tongues, both at school and at university. A growing awareness of the need to preserve cultural identities has stimulated an interest among members of ethnic communities in revitalizing ethnic languages and cultures and has influenced language policy in multiethnic countries [5] [6] [7]. In the context of growing language extinction, preservation of linguistic and cultural diversity is possible only if a certain language is used by the members of a community in everyday oral discourse and functions as a cultural dominant within the community.…”
Section: The Age Of Globalization Raises Various Questionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent decades, representatives of minority ethnic groups and politicians in Russia and abroad have frequently insisted on educating representatives of national minority groups solely in their mother tongues, both at school and at university. A growing awareness of the need to preserve cultural identities has stimulated an interest among members of ethnic communities in revitalizing ethnic languages and cultures and has influenced language policy in multiethnic countries [5] [6] [7]. In the context of growing language extinction, preservation of linguistic and cultural diversity is possible only if a certain language is used by the members of a community in everyday oral discourse and functions as a cultural dominant within the community.…”
Section: The Age Of Globalization Raises Various Questionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La comunicación virtual (conocida en inglés como Computer-Mediated Communication o CMC) ha redefinido nuestras interacciones comunicativas, y las ha deslocalizado y destemporalizado (Belmar & Glass 2019;ver también Blommaert 2019). Nuestros repertorios sociolingüísticos y los valores que se les asocian han sufrido una transformación dramática con las nuevas actividades sociales y las nuevas formas de interacción surgidas en la globalización (Blommaert 2009).…”
Section: Introducción: Medios De Comunicación Y Revitalización Lingüísticaunclassified
“…Para las lenguas minorizadas, estos procesos parecen llevar a una homogeneización lingüística reforzando la hegemonía del inglés. Sin embargo, comunidades minorizadas alrededor del mundo luchan para reclamar espacios y discursos propios en este nuevo contexto (Belmar & Glass 2019;ver también Kymlicka 1995;Bornman 2003;y Eisenberg & Spinner-Halev 2005). Esta lucha para mantener y crear espacios y dominios comunicativos para lenguas minorizadas es necesaria para su supervivencia a largo plazo (ver Buszard-Welcher 2000;Soria 2016).…”
Section: Introducción: Medios De Comunicación Y Revitalización Lingüísticaunclassified
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