Beyond the speech community: On belonging to a multilingual, diasporic, and digital social network

Publication date: Available online 20 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Marco JacquemetAbstractThe experience of linguistic globalization, and the sociolinguistic disorder it entails, requires a serious retooling of most basic units of sociolinguistic analysis—foremost among them the speech community. The randomness and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space is affecting the linguistic ideological boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. In particular, we can no longer assume that shared knowledge, especially indexical knowledge, can still provide a common ground to bind people together, negotiate conflicts, and share/transmit ideologies. Using data from a digital ethnography of a multiling...

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