Code
05U40214
Duration
01 December 2014 → 30 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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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.