Networked multilingualism: Some language practices on Facebook and their implications
Networked multilingualism: Some language practices on Facebook and their implications
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DOI：
10.1177/1367006913489198
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Androutsopoulos, Jannis
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作者：
Androutsopoulos, Jannis
本文综合多语言和计算机媒介交际的研究成果，提出了"网络多语言“这一概念，并通过一个案例分析探讨了其对多语言理论的启示。网络多语制是指由两个相互关联的过程形成的多语做法：网络化，即与其他个人和群体的数字连接，以及网络中，即嵌入网络的全球媒体景观。它涵盖了语言使用者在三组限制条件下对整个语言资源范围所做的一切：数字技术对书面语言的中介，对网络资源的访问以及对网络受众的定位。本文的实证部分讨论了一小群希腊背景的中学生在德国城市的Facebook语言实践。数据收集遵循在线人种学方法，该方法结合了对在线活动的系统观察、对屏幕数据的收集和语言分析以及通过与用户直接接触获得的数据。集中在四周的话语轮廓墙，分析研究了参与者的语言剧目，他们的语言选择的自我介绍和对话交流的体裁，以及多语言在线交谈的性能。研究结果表明，学生的网络多语言的做法是个性化的，体裁成形，并广泛和分层的剧目的基础上。
Integrating research on multilingualism and computer-mediated communication, this paper proposes the term networked multilingualism' and presents findings from a case study to explore its implications for the theorising of multilingualism. Networked multilingualism is a cover term for multilingual practices that are shaped by two interrelated processes: being networked, i.e. digitally connected to other individuals and groups, and being in the network, i.e. embedded in the global mediascape of the web. It encompasses everything language users do with the entire range of linguistic resources within three sets of constraints: mediation of written language by digital technologies, access to network resources, and orientation to networked audiences. The empirical part of the paper discusses the Facebook language practices of a small group of Greek-background secondary school students in a German city. Data collection follows an online ethnography approach, which combines systematic observation of online activities, collection and linguistic analysis of screen data, and data elicited through direct contact with users. Focusing on four weeks of discourse on profile walls, the analysis examines the participants' linguistic repertoires, their language choices for genres of self-presentation and dialogic exchange, and the performance of multilingual talk online. The findings suggest that the students' networked multilingual practices are individualised, genre-shaped, and based on wide and stratified repertoires.