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Investigating multilingualism and multisemioticity as communicative resources in social media

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Leppänen, S., & Kytölä, S. (2017). Investigating multilingualism and multisemioticity as communicative resources in social media. In M. Martin-Jones, & D. Martin (Eds.), Researching Multilingualism : Critical and ethnographic perspectives (pp. 155-171). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315405346-20
Authors
Leppänen, Sirpa |
Kytölä, Samu
Editors
Martin-Jones, Marilyn |
Martin, Deirdre
Date
2017
Discipline
Englannin kieliEnglish
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© 2017 Routledge. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Routledge. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.

 
This chapter discusses the role of multilingualism and multisemioticity as key resources in communication in contemporary interest-driven social media. We approach social media as translocal arenas for social interaction and (trans)cultural activities (Leppänen 2008, 2012; Kytölä in press) which complement and intertwine with participants’ offline realities in different ways. In particular, we show how the investigation of such activities can benefit from a multi-dimensional framework drawing on insights from several fields, including online ethnography, the study of multimodality, and research into computer-mediated discourse (CMD).
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Routledge
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978-0-415-74841-4
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Researching Multilingualism : Critical and ethnographic perspectives
Keywords
multisemioticity communicative resources monikielisyys sosiaalinen media

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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315405346-20
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