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ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2023.01.005

Construing Language Communities through New Media: A Literature Review

Haibin Wu

School of Public Service, Guangdong Engineering Polytechnic, Guangzhou, China, 510000.

*Corresponding author: Haibin Wu

Published: February 01, 2023

Abstract

The relationship between language and society not only discovers social and cultural issues through language phenomena but also explores the social meaning behind language from a social context. Without language, society cannot be formed and maintained; The combination of the two makes studying sociolinguistics particularly necessary. Social Networking Sites (SNS), as a non-regional speech community, break through geographical restrictions and forms a new speech community network. Regions do not limit new media, and many people question whether it constitutes a “speech community” precisely because it is a developmental theory, and it is even more necessary to conduct in-depth research on non-regional speech communities. Some scholars propose four critical consequences of SNS: the benefits to communication, information, community, and identity. This paper gives previous studies conducted to investigate using new media from these four perspectives. Framework of Communities of Practice and the five super-strategies of impoliteness can be applied in the power-related discourse analysis in professional groups.

Keyword

Social Context, Social Networking Sites, Language Community

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How to cite this paper

Construing Language Communities through New Media: A Literature Review

How to cite this paper: Haibin Wu. (2023). Construing Language Communities through New Media: A Literature Review. The Educational Review, USA7(1), 19-21.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2023.01.005