Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by users of Iranian descent in Belgium
- Promotors: Slembrouck Stef, De Bot Kees
- Researchers: Elmianvari Azadeh
- Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional salience of the various languages used, (ii) their functional role in the interactional architecture of social media, (iii) the connections with the construction of a diasporic space.