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Project

Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by Facebook users of Iranian descent in Belgium
Code
05U40214
Duration
01 December 2014 → 30 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Linguistics
Keywords
language and diaspora social media internet Iran code-selection/switching conversational architecture multilingualism Contemporary English Dutch Oriental languages Quantitative Surveys Language and text analysis Field research Asia Belgium Linguistics Media Communication Interculturalism
 
Project description
 

The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional salience of the various languages used, (ii) their functional role in the interactional architecture of social media, (iii) the
connections with the construction of a diasporic space characterized by fragmented/dislocated identities.