Multilingualism online / by Carmen Lee.
By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world. Drawing on a range of digital media - from email to chatrooms and social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube - Lee demonstrates how online multilingualism is c...
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Background and approach to multilingualism online
- Multilingualism online: an auto-technobiography
- Why multilingualism online?
- Beyond multilingualism
- practice-based approach to multilingualism online
- Overview of chapters
- 2. Linguistic diversity and language choice online
- internet as an English medium
- Measuring linguistic diversity on the internet
- Language choice and multilingual resources online
- When linguistic resources meet other semiotic modes in CMC
- Understanding the affordances of meaning-making resources
- Beyond counting languages
- 3. Written code-switching online
- Defining codes and code-switching in digital communication
- Research on code-switching in digital communication
- Structural patterns of code-switching online
- Discourse functions and social motivations of online code-switching
- Rethinking code choice and code-switching in the digital age
- 4. Multilingual practices and identities online
- Multilingualism and identities online
- Performing glocal identities in translocal online spaces
- Hashtag politics: Asserting local voices through Instagram hashtags
- Language play and identities in social media
- Negotiating identities in online teaching and learning spaces
- Doing identity work with multilingual resources online
- 5. Representations of multilingualism on the internet
- Representing multilingualism on the internet
- Multilingual categorization and management of online content
- Imagining multilingualism
- Metalinguistic discourses on the internet
- Talking about multilingualism in the online world
- 6. Minority languages and the internet
- scope of minority languages in CMC
- Minority languages on the internet: opportunities and challenges
- Representing lesser-written languages on the internet
- future of minority languages online
- 7. Online translation as a multilingual practice
- Translation and the internet
- Community translation as a vernacular multilingual practice
- Getting things done through translation practices in the mobile world
- future of online translation practices
- 8. Researching multilingualism online: current trends and future perspectives
- overview of methods
- researcher's role in online multilingualism research
- multilingual researcher
- Where we are now and the way forward.