Language and identity on Facebook

Brook  Bolander

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02237-6_11

Language and identity on Facebook

Brook Bolander

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Abstract

As a site catering explicitly to the maintenance and construction of personal relationships, social networking site (SNS) Facebook provides its users with a wide range of spaces and means through which they can construct and perform their identity. Despite technological advancements, including a notable and progressive shift to increased multimodality, language remains central to these
practices. It constitutes a key way through which one can “type oneself into being” (Sundén 2003, p. 3). This chapter provides an overview of sociolinguistic research on language and identity on Facebook. In addition to delineating the rise of SNSs and research on identity in SNSs, it reviews major contributions to the study of language and identity on Facebook, outlines work in progress, addresses
major research challenges and difficulties, and provides an outlook to future research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Language, Education and Technology
Editors	Steven L. Thorne, Stephen May
Place of Publication	Cham Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	143-154
Number of pages	12
Edition	3rd
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319022376
ISBN (Print)	9783319022369, 9783319022383
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02237-6_11
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Encyclopedia of Language and Education
Publisher	Springer

Keywords

Social network sites
Facebook
Identity
Online-offline relationship
Web 2.0

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-319-02237-6_11

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