TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caroline Schilling
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653071979
TI  - Heteroglossia Online
T2  - Translocal Processes of Meaning-Making in Facebook Posts
DO  - 10.3726/b10491
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050768
N2  - The nature of communicative practices today, particularly in the context of digitalized media, has revealed that earlier paradigms on language contact do not prove to be fully satisfactory. Based on 1,507 Facebook posts of German university students participating in the Erasmus exchange program, the analysis aims at exploring how posters draw on their entire repertoire of local and «translocal» semiotic resources in interactions among speakers with diverse language backgrounds. The students under examination participate in actual processes of meaning-making by refashioning the semiotic potential of various features. As a result, the interlocutors create heteroglossic and polycentric posts to decollapse collided and fuzzy contexts and to negotiate potentially large and multiple audiences.
KW  - Language Contact, Social Semiotics, Globalization, New Media, Contextualization, Erasmus
LA  - English
ER  -