Creating a Unique Transnational Place: Deterritorialized Discourse and the Blending of Time and Space in Online Social Media

Autor/in	Christiansen, M. Sidury
Titel	Creating a Unique Transnational Place: Deterritorialized Discourse and the Blending of Time and Space in Online Social Media
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 34 (2017) 2, S.135-164 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/0741088317693996
Schlagwörter	Social Networks; Mexican Americans; Discourse Analysis; Bilingualism; Spanish; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Social Media; Language Usage; Computer Mediated Communication; Ethnography; Cultural Background; Self Concept; Language Attitudes; Mexicans; Foreign Countries; Family Relationship; Illinois (Chicago); Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Hispanoamerikaner; Diskursanalyse; Bilingualismus; Spanisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Soziale Medien; Sprachgebrauch; Computerkonferenz; Ethnografie; Selbstkonzept; Sprachverhalten; Mexikaner; Ausland; Mexiko
Abstract	This study describes how members of a transnational social network of Mexican bilinguals living in Chicago manipulate their language on online social media to facilitate and maintain close connections across borders. Using a discourse-centered online ethnographic approach, I examine conversations posted on members' Facebook walls and the contexts in which the discourses are formed. I argue that members of this transnational social network engage in the use of "deterritorialized discourse" to create chronotopes; that is, through discourse, members connect temporal and spatial relationships and form them into a single constructed context. These chronotopes help members recontextualize Facebook as a unique transnational social place that connects families and allows for the continuation of cultural practices that maintain their transnationalism. This study sheds light on the use of linguistic resources and modes of communication to examine how individuals construct imagined experiences within a real intimate community in the deterritorialized space of online social media. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01