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
    • Linguistics
Keywords
language and diaspora social media internet Iran code-selection/switching conversational architecture multilingualism
 
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.