“Listisimo para los #XVdeRubi:” Constructing a chronotope as a shared imagined experience in Twitter to enact Mexicanness outside of Mexico

Christiansen, M. Sidury

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2019.05.002

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“…Our study reveals some of the social and communicative practices that may influence participation in minority-language campaigns on Twitter. We conclude that the semantically and pragmatically meaningful hashtag, #TrasnanadTonnta, guided content creation by relevant social actors that indexed a sense of personal identity and community affiliation (Christiansen, 2019; Papacharissi, 2012; Scott, 2015; Zappavigna, 2011). This is, however, a cautious conclusion as our study bears some limitations.…”

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“…For diasporic communities, the deterritorialized spaces of social media offer particular affordances for cultural enactment and continuity in uniquely constructed transnational spaces (Christiansen, 2017; De Fina, 2016). Transcending time and space in virtual networks allows them to semiotically signal their identity and belonging in the co-creation of transnational chronotopes (Bakhtin, 1981; Blommaert, 2018; Christiansen, 2017, 2019). Focusing on the content of interactions in social media, De Fina (2022) argues that chronotopic analysis allows for the emergence of different understandings of time and space in the development of communicative practice, and of the configuration and negotiation of identities in these practices.…”

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Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns forGaeilge

McMonagle

Bhroin

2023

Social Media + Society

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Research increasingly shows how speakers and learners of minority languages exploit online spaces to forge communication networks and create and consume content in languages that are otherwise marginalized from central societal domains. While the connectivity afforded by internet technologies is imperative to computer-mediated communication, culturally authentic content and expressions of identity are central to meaning-making processes that may influence online participation (or not) in a particular language. We examine participation in two Twitter campaigns for the Irish language—both conceived to increase the visibility of Irish online but with drastically different outcomes. Using the Twitter interface to conduct a content analysis of tweets bearing the respective campaign hashtags, we reveal the discretionary approach to online engagement exhibited by minority-language users and explicate some of the social and communicative practices that contributed to the success of one campaign over the other, bolstered by a comprehensive campaign infrastructure and semantically enticing features.

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Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns forGaeilge

McMonagle

Bhroin

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…The family, hometown, and transborder chronotopes create spatiotemporal contexts into which participants situate themselves and others and form the support for the construction of multidimensional identities. These chronotopes are deterritorialized which aid the movement and negotiation of participation across national borders and over time (Christiansen, 2019). The participants' digital literacy practices facilitate the transnational connections they form with relatives who are in a different locale.…”

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Transnational Mexican Youth Negotiating Languages, Identities, and Cultures Online: A Chronotopic Lens

Lam

Christiansen

2022

TESOL Quarterly

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This article presents a case study with two transnational Mexican youth that came from a larger study of the digital media practices of young people in an urban high school. Our study takes a chronotopic (Bakhtin, 1981) lens to understand the youths' accounts of their digital communication. Analysis of interviews and observations with the youth when they described their online activities show that the youth employed digital literacies to vicariously "live" experiences and keep up with life away from their families in Mexico. The youth situated their activities in three distinct but dialogical chronotopes (family, hometown, and transborder) to create transnational connections and make sense of who they are. They drew on digital artifacts to narrate themselves, developed familial, cultural, and political knowledge, and expanded their linguistic repertoires in the process. The findings have implications for TESOL classrooms that seek to build on the border-crossing experiences and linguistic and multimodal resources of young people in their learning. We discuss how youths' digital practices and embedded artifacts serve to construct multiple contexts and vantage points for developing their transnational identities and knowledge, and how these practices could be recognized as agentic forms of narrative production and learning in the classroom.

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“…Collective identities constructed in social media include national, group, and corporate identities. Mexican immigrants living in the US, for instance, are found to co-construct an imagined experience on Twitter to forge their ethnic identity and display their sense of belonging to Mexican culture by participating in specific cultural practices using hashtags, memes, and multimodal resources (Christiansen, 2019). Tagg and Seargeant (2012) observed that Thai-English bilinguals use letter repetitions on Facebook and MSN to index a group identity.…”

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Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wang

Feng

2021

SAGE Open

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This study aimed to present the status quo of linguistic studies on social media in the past decade. In particular, it conducted a bibliometric analysis of articles from the field of linguistics of the database of Web of Science Core Collection with the aid of the tool CiteSpace to identify the general characteristics, major strands of linguistics, main research methods, and important research themes in the area of linguistic studies on social media. The main findings are summarized as follows. First, the study reported the publication trend, main publication venues, researched social media platforms, and languages used in researched social media. Second, sociolinguistics and pragmatics were found to be major strands of linguistics used in relevant studies. Third, the study identified seven main research methods: discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, multimodal analysis, narrative analysis, ethnographic analysis, and corpus analysis. Fourth, important research themes were extracted and classified based on four dimensions of the genre framework of social media studies. They were the participation nature and technology affordances of social media in the dimension of compositional level, the researched topics of education, (language) policy and politics in the dimension of thematic orientations, the researched discursive practices of (im)politeness, humor, indexicality and multilingualism in the dimension of stylistic traits, and the researched communicative functions of constructing identity, communicating (language) ideology, and expressing attitude in the pragmatic dimension. Moreover, linguistic studies on social media tended to be characterized by cross-disciplinary and mixed-method approaches.

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“Listisimo para los #XVdeRubi:” Constructing a chronotope as a shared imagined experience in Twitter to enact Mexicanness outside of Mexico

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns forGaeilge

Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns forGaeilge

Transnational Mexican Youth Negotiating Languages, Identities, and Cultures Online: A Chronotopic Lens

Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

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