Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations

The objective of this research is to analyse current written practices within the global South. Specifically, we examine language mixing phenomena in written online texts publicly displayed on the official Facebook page of one of the two most important football players in the history of Cameroon, Sa...

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Autores principales:	Carmen Pérez-Sabater, Ginette Maguelouk-Moffo
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2020
Materias:	identity; language mixing; code-switching; social media; multilingual texts; football; Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d11fc170fa484fd197e4f5261185fb5b2021-11-19T03:51:50ZOnline Multilingualism in African Written Conversations10.32473/sal.v49i1.1222720039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/d11fc170fa484fd197e4f5261185fb5b2020-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/122272https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe objective of this research is to analyse current written practices within the global South. Specifically, we examine language mixing phenomena in written online texts publicly displayed on the official Facebook page of one of the two most important football players in the history of Cameroon, Samuel Eto’o. By means of a quantitative and languaging analysis proposed by Androutsopoulos (2014), we see that indigenous Cameroonian languages are now being written in public spaces. Instances of lexical items in these languages are sometimes inserted in Facebook comments to establish local/national identity, to emphasise the fact that the player is a Cameroonian. However, Cameroonian national identity still is usually constructed through the exclusive use of English and French. Interestingly, the study shows that code-switching (CS) to a particular language may function as a distancing technique, an impoliteness strategy towards the player. Carmen Pérez-SabaterGinette Maguelouk-MoffoLibraryPress@UFarticleidentity;language mixing;code-switching;social media;multilingual texts;football;Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 49, Iss 1 (2020)
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topic	identity; language mixing; code-switching; social media; multilingual texts; football; Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	identity; language mixing; code-switching; social media; multilingual texts; football; Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Carmen Pérez-Sabater Ginette Maguelouk-Moffo Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations
description	The objective of this research is to analyse current written practices within the global South. Specifically, we examine language mixing phenomena in written online texts publicly displayed on the official Facebook page of one of the two most important football players in the history of Cameroon, Samuel Eto’o. By means of a quantitative and languaging analysis proposed by Androutsopoulos (2014), we see that indigenous Cameroonian languages are now being written in public spaces. Instances of lexical items in these languages are sometimes inserted in Facebook comments to establish local/national identity, to emphasise the fact that the player is a Cameroonian. However, Cameroonian national identity still is usually constructed through the exclusive use of English and French. Interestingly, the study shows that code-switching (CS) to a particular language may function as a distancing technique, an impoliteness strategy towards the player.
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author	Carmen Pérez-Sabater Ginette Maguelouk-Moffo
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title	Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations
title_short	Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations
title_full	Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations
title_fullStr	Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations
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Online Multilingualism in African Written Conversations

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