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Publication details [#65971]

Pérez-Sabater, Carmen and Ginette Maguelouk Moffo. 2019. Managing identity in football communities on Facebook: Language preference and language mixing strategies. Lingua 225 : 32–49.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
code-switching | internet | language choice | language mixing | minority language | multilingualism | sports language
Language as a subject
Catalan | Languages, Cameroonian, Indigenous | Spanish
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores language choice and code-switching in two diverse social media multilingual communities: comments posted on the official Facebook pages of the most notable football clubs in Cameroon and Spain. In these two cases, non-standardised languages like indigenous Cameroonian languages or “minority” languages like Catalan must rival with other languages.