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
- 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.