„WHAT DEHOGYIS LOL!” – LINGUISTIC REPERTOIRES IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
„WHAT DEHOGYIS LOL!” – LINGUISTIC REPERTOIRES IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Author(s): Enikő Biró
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: social media; linguistic repertoire; language choice; interview;
Summary/Abstract: The term ‘super-diversity’ is used to describe the phenomena of globally expanding mobility, which entail new and increasingly complex social formations and networking practices (Busch 2012). This new approach of sociolinguistics studies languages and language varieties within the background of linguistic resources, attitudes, repertoires, and discourses. Super-diversity in the digital world refers to the linguistic repertoires in publicly accessible digital spaces on the Internet, where social media users creatively adopt and use linguistic resources. The study investigates linguistic repertoire in public Facebook profiles by analysing the language choice of research participants. The research focuses on multilingualism reflected in online social media users’ linguistic repertoire: how Hungarian minority speakers, students of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Romania draw upon their linguistic repertoires in order to maximize the effectiveness and functionality of their online communication.

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