Language Ideologies, Multilingualism, and Social Media

Abstract

This chapter introduces the three areas of sociolinguistic research that form the foundation of this book: language ideologies and language policy, language use in social media, and multilingual language use in interaction. It begins by giving a summary of each of these areas of research in turn and its relevance for the book, and then moves on to point out where these bodies of research intersect and explain the implications these linkages have for the analysis in the subsequent chapters.