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Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by Facebook users of Iranian descent in Belgium

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.

Date:1 Dec 2014 →  30 Nov 2019
Keywords:language and diaspora, social media, internet, Iran, code-selection/switching, conversational architecture, multilingualism
Disciplines:Linguistics