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The purpose of this study is to examine language choice, language alternation and code-switching practices in
Instant Messaging (IM). Specifically, this article presents the results from an analysis of the written conversations of a
specific community formed by Valencian adults fluent in English. Taking a computer-mediated, discourse-centred ethnographic
approach to online discourse, the study has shown that, in this specific trilingual online community of language teachers,
language choice and the choice of a specific written variety is intimately related to audience. The group members mix Catalan,
English and Spanish regularly, their language choice and code-switching strategies serving to establish in-group solidarity,
familiarity and lessen face-threatening acts. Switches to English, sometimes followed by a switch to Catalan, are usually employed
for humorous word play. Interestingly, the case study exemplifies how the use of a certain language may be highly correlated to
ideological and political considerations.
期刊介绍:
Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, European Reference Index for the Humanities, Sociological abstracts, INIST, Linguistic Bibliography, Scopus