Exploration of Interactive Sociolinguistic Phenomena on Social Media
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https://doi.org/10.54097/51ywf119Keywords:
Social Media, Sociolinguistics, Computer-Mediated Discourse, Context Collapse, Multilingualism, IdentityAbstract
Social media has changed how people communicate in daily life by combining text, speech, pictures and other kinds of spreaders to create an all-new dynamic system driven by algorithms. Interactive sociolinguistic phenomena on social media from the perspectives of self-presentation, audience design, multilingual practice and platform affordances are studied in this paper. Online communication is not only an expansion of face-to-face conversation; it is a completely new system of communication that has appeared to help people explore their sense of self, position and group consciousness under conditions of visibility, permanence and rapid spread. Pay attention to the above four phenomena: context collapse, computer-mediated discourse, enregisterment and multilingual writing practices; all of them have altered how linguistic meaning is produced and conveyed in the online era. The research shows that, in recent years, social media interaction has been characterized by multiple modes, portability, selection of relational media, and new analysis systems must adapt to cross-platform variations. In short, the paper proposes that interactive language practices on social platforms have diversified, sped up and intensified the reflexivity of contemporary sociolinguistic systems.
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