From Naija to Chitown: The New African Diaspora and digital representations of place
From Naija to Chitown: The New African Diaspora and digital representations of place
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从奈贾到奇敦：新非洲侨民和地方的数字表示
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10.1016/j.dcm.2015.06.001
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2015
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und Mirka Honkanen
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Theresa;und Mirka Honkanen
在过去的二十年里，新非洲移民社群已经成为一个全球性的移动的社区，是在超级多样化条件下生活的缩影。其成员来自撒哈拉以南非洲的原籍国，形成了一个具有日益全球重要性的网络，最大的枢纽位于美国和英国。尽管或因为其代表的高度流动性，他们的话语的地方，特别是特定的城市空间，被赋予社会和象征意义。NAD成员对所属城市表现出强烈而公开的立场，因此，地方成为展示社会语言身份的锚点。这种趋势在数字散居中尤其明显，并有记录在案，即在散居网络论坛或社交媒体上产生的在线话语中。早期的社会语言学方法，以计算机为媒介的通信（CMC）在很大程度上忽视了地理位置和本地锚定的身份的概念，专注于在一个抽象的，错位的网络空间的匿名用户的概念。然而，随着社交媒体和移动的设备的兴起，地点和（城市）空间的概念在数字语篇分析中逐渐兴起，本研究基于这一趋势，探讨了数字NAD中城市空间的语言表征。该方法基于代表尼日利亚数字侨民的大规模语料库，从在线讨论论坛nairaland.com下载。在这个资源中，城市空间的社会意义和它的表征都在语言编码策略和新兴主题方面进行了探索。基于语料库的文本分析被用来检测特定地点的符号化/价值化的语言模式（例如，在xconstructions中通过此处的近端指示锚定，以及使用深情的地名，如NaijaorChitown）。此外，定性细读的材料揭示了新出现的主题，代表反复出现的立场，对地方在community.In总结，我们的研究提供了一个全面的和方法论上不同的概述，在全球移动的实践社区的地方的社会语言学表征，特别是在数字散居地的地方概念的重要性。因此，它有助于更好地理解CMC的社会语言学及其对场所和空间的关注。
In the past two decades, the New African Diaspora (NAD) has emerged as a globally mobile community that epitomizes life under super-diverse conditions. Coming from countries of origin in sub-Saharan Africa, its members form a network with an increasing global significance, with the largest hubs in the US and the UK. Despite or because of the high mobility of its representatives, their discourses about place, and in particular specific urban spaces, are charged with social and symbolic meaning. NAD members show strong and overt stances toward the cities they are affiliated with, so that localities become anchors for displaying sociolinguistic identity.This tendency is especially pronounced and on-record in the digital diaspora, i.e. in online discourse produced in diasporic web forums or on social media. Early sociolinguistic approaches to computer-mediated communication (CMC) had largely disregarded the notions of geographic place and locally anchored identity by focusing on the concept of anonymous users in an abstract, dislocated cyberspace. However, through the rise of social media and mobile devices, the notion of place and (urban) space is emerging in the analysis of digital discourse.This study builds on this growing tendency by exploring linguistic representations of urban space in the digital NAD. The approach is based on a large-scale corpus representing the Nigerian digital diaspora, downloaded from the online discussion forum nairaland.com. In this resource, the social meaning of urban space and its representations are explored both in terms of linguistic encoding strategies and with regard to emerging themes. Corpus-based text analysis is used to detect linguistic patterns of symbolic de/valoring of specific places (e.g. proximal deictic anchoring throughhere in xconstructions, as well as the use of affectionate place names such asNaijaorChitown). In addition, qualitative close-reading of the material reveals emerging themes that represent recurring stances toward place within the community.In sum, our study provides a thorough and methodologically varied overview of sociolinguistic representations of place in a globally mobile community of practice, and in particular of the importance of place concepts in digital diasporas. It thus contributes to a better understanding of the sociolinguistics of CMC and its emerging focus on place and space.
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