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Language Norms and Accommodation in Computer Mediated Discourse The Case of Berber Diaspora Websites
This study investigates one of the central claims of recent social theory, namely that U+2018traditionalU+2019 collective identities, based on social class hierarchy and sustained by local and national institutions, are being substituted by more dynamic and transnational group identities, which are strongly supported by electronic media. The following related research questions are addressed:
1. How are language norms created on the Berber Diaspora websites?
2. Do Diaspora websites function as institutionalised contexts?
Date:1 Oct 2007 → 30 Sep 2014
Keywords:sociolinguistics, computer-mediated communication, identity, language norms and practices, diaspora websites, linguistic minorities
Disciplines:Linguistics, Language studies, Literary studies, Applied sociology, Anthropology