Abstract
This Special Issue brings together research at the intersection of two emerging areas of scholarship in sociocultural linguistics, digital communication and superdiversity. The nine papers explore their relationship from two angles: they examine the role of digital language practices in contexts of societal superdiversity, and the relevance of superdiversity as a theoretical perspective for the study of digital language practices. In our Introduction we first outline the concept of superdiversity and the way digital media and communications technologies are conceptualised in literature on superdiversity and some relevant earlier scholarship. We then turn to the reception of superdiversity in sociolinguistics and the role of digital language and literacy in this discussion. Drawing on the papers in this issue, we then outline a number of research perspectives on digital language practices in superdiversity. Finally the papers in the special issue are introduced.
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