Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town

A critical sociolinguistic study of diasporization among Hungarians in Catalonia

“…Furthermore, sociolinguistics can address the issues of how boundaries are created, maintained, and negotiated through discursive and (meta)linguistic means. The sociolinguistic literature in recent years has entailed a wide range of topics related to diasporization: the media practices and the communicational patterns of diasporic connectivity , Theodoropoulou 2021, the conviviality of diasporic communities (Márquez Reiter & Patiño Santos 2021), the inner variation of diasporic groups (Sharma 2021, Mesthrie 2021, and the images of the homeland and the host-land (Karimzad & Catedral 2021, Mayoma & Williams 2021. This is why in my research, I opted to conduct an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic study in order to observe the circulating discourses, the locally embedded practices, and the resources which play key roles in the process of diasporization.…”