What is it about?
This article summarises research on the relation between language and community. It also gives an outlook on why we need to rethink the concept of 'community' in research due to the ever-increasing role of social media and digital communication in general. A brief pilot study on language use on Reddit is used to illustrate this problem.
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Why is it important?
The chapter contributes to roughly two decades' worth of research on language and community in the Digital Age by (a) summarising critical points and (b) assessing points of interest for the long road ahead.
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This page is a summary of: Rethinking Community in Linguistics: Language and Community in the Digital Age, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8_7.
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