Publications
Publication details [#56592]
Sharma, Bal Krishna. 2012. Beyond social networking: Performing global Englishes in Facebook by college youth in Nepal. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16 (4) : 483–509.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses how economically and educationally privileged Nepali college youth employ Facebook social networking to reset the role of English in relation to their existing social relationships, innovatively mixing the English and Nepali language in their bilingual identity construction.