The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts
This article examines the impact of social media on the linguistic and communicative practices in post-socialist countries, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Mongolia–the contexts very much under-represented in the discussion of translingualism. Relocalisation of social media-based linguis...
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| description | This article examines the impact of social media on the linguistic and communicative practices in post-socialist countries, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Mongolia–the contexts very much under-represented in the discussion of translingualism. Relocalisation of social media-based linguistic resources in the languages used in these peripheral countries represents linguistically innovative practice, which entails orthographic, morphosyntactic, and phonologic adaptation of Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube labels, as well as their semantic reformulation in Bosnian, Serbian, and Mongolian resources. Social media-oriented linguistic terminologies are being adapted to the Cyrillic alphabet in Serbian and Mongolian and adopt grammatical features of the Bosnian variety. The original forms in social media are manipulated by social media users to serve their own ethos and local sociolinguistic practices. As a result, new forms of languages and linguistic meanings are created. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-914982023-05-09T05:38:31Z The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts Tankosic, Ana Dovchin, Sender Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Linguistics Language & Linguistics Relocalisation social media peripheral languages Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Mongolia LANGUAGE ENGLISH FOREIGN This article examines the impact of social media on the linguistic and communicative practices in post-socialist countries, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Mongolia–the contexts very much under-represented in the discussion of translingualism. Relocalisation of social media-based linguistic resources in the languages used in these peripheral countries represents linguistically innovative practice, which entails orthographic, morphosyntactic, and phonologic adaptation of Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube labels, as well as their semantic reformulation in Bosnian, Serbian, and Mongolian resources. Social media-oriented linguistic terminologies are being adapted to the Cyrillic alphabet in Serbian and Mongolian and adopt grammatical features of the Bosnian variety. The original forms in social media are manipulated by social media users to serve their own ethos and local sociolinguistic practices. As a result, new forms of languages and linguistic meanings are created. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91498 10.1080/14790718.2021.1917582 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100118 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD restricted |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Linguistics Language & Linguistics Relocalisation social media peripheral languages Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Mongolia LANGUAGE ENGLISH FOREIGN Tankosic, Ana Dovchin, Sender The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| title | The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| title_full | The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| title_fullStr | The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| title_short | The impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| title_sort | impact of social media in the sociolinguistic practices of the peripheral post-socialist contexts |
| topic | Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Linguistics Language & Linguistics Relocalisation social media peripheral languages Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Mongolia LANGUAGE ENGLISH FOREIGN |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100118 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91498 |