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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2020  
         
  Article:   LANGUAGE AND PUBLICS IN A GLOBAL DIGITAL WORLD. WHAT IS LINGUISTIC CITIZENSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY?.

Authors:  BRITTA SCHNEIDER.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbeuropaea.2020.2.03
Published Online: 2020-12-30
Published Print: 2020-12-30
pp. 45-70
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In this article, I discuss language from a linguistic anthropological perspective, where the existence of standardised languages is understood as an outcome of socio-political discourses in the age of nationalism, in which the technologies of print literacy enabled national public spaces – and with it, national language standards – to emerge. What happens to language standards and public spaces in the era of digital technologies and transnational interaction? I introduce some examples and develop ideas on language policing in settings where monolingual national ideals exist besides other emerging linguistic authorities.

Keywords: languages, nationalism, public spaces, standardization, late modernity
 
         
     
         
         
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