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Publication details [#61910]

Birnie-Smith, Jessica Rae. 2016. Ethnic identity and language choice across online forums. The International Journal of Multilingualism 13 (2) : 165–183.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Four young Chinese Indonesians are shown to use their multilingual repertoires to diversely build their online ethnic identity in line with the social variables they face on Kaskus® and Facebook®, as broadly supposed by the mixed theories of audience design and Social Identity De-individuation Effects (SIDE), albeit these could not decisively clarify code-switching practices with equal ethnic others on Facebook®.