Code Play as Translingual Practice

The study starts with the definition of local, translocal, and global linguistic context in the digital space. Facebook as a social media platform provides opportunities for everyday digital literacy practices such as code play. Code play allows mixing codes and repertoires usually with a humorous r...

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Main Author:	Biró Enikő
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2020-11-01
Series:	Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
Subjects:	online linguistic practices code play code-switching translingualism
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0016

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spelling	doaj-eb51a01dcd094ff5b83574c6bfb279ea2021-09-06T19:41:27ZengSciendoActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica2391-81792020-11-0112211412810.2478/ausp-2020-0016Code Play as Translingual PracticeBiró Enikő0Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Department of Applied Linguistics, Târgu-MureşThe study starts with the definition of local, translocal, and global linguistic context in the digital space. Facebook as a social media platform provides opportunities for everyday digital literacy practices such as code play. Code play allows mixing codes and repertoires usually with a humorous reference. We argue that creative interaction among languages creates the methodological need for a translingual approach besides the traditional code-switching theory to explain online linguistic phenomena. Adopting a netnographic approach, this paper presents two participants’ linguistic history, online linguistic practices, and perceptions of their own digital literacy, exploring their portrayal of (multi)linguistic identity which has local, translocal, and global resonance. The paper exploits possibilities of code play to accomplish communicative goals through code-switching and translingualism with a linguistically diverse audience.https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0016online linguistic practicescode playcode-switchingtranslingualism
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title	Code Play as Translingual Practice
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publisher	Sciendo
series	Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
issn	2391-8179
publishDate	2020-11-01
description	The study starts with the definition of local, translocal, and global linguistic context in the digital space. Facebook as a social media platform provides opportunities for everyday digital literacy practices such as code play. Code play allows mixing codes and repertoires usually with a humorous reference. We argue that creative interaction among languages creates the methodological need for a translingual approach besides the traditional code-switching theory to explain online linguistic phenomena. Adopting a netnographic approach, this paper presents two participants’ linguistic history, online linguistic practices, and perceptions of their own digital literacy, exploring their portrayal of (multi)linguistic identity which has local, translocal, and global resonance. The paper exploits possibilities of code play to accomplish communicative goals through code-switching and translingualism with a linguistically diverse audience.
topic	online linguistic practices code play code-switching translingualism
url	https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0016
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Code Play as Translingual Practice

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