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Transcultural communication: Language, communication and culture through English as a lingua franca in a social network community
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Abstract:
SNS (Social Networking Sites) are a ubiquitous social space for many, often involving the use of English as a lingua franca in highly multilingual and multicultural settings. This article presents an ethnographic investigation of communication among a group of international students on a popular SNS. The data illustrates the fluid and complex linguistic and cultural practices present in these social spaces. This has important implications for understanding intercultural communication; in particular, we argue that a transcultural perspective provides a significant new dimension to research in which borders between languages, communities and cultures are transcended, transgressed and transformed.
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URL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/430257/ https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/430257/1/Transcultural_communication_with_authors_main_paper_and_abstract.docx
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