Andreas Stæhr

University of Copenhagen, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS), Faculty Member

University of Copenhagen, Department of Nordic Research, Faculty Member

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I am interested in everyday language use on (and around) social media and how such language practices can be studied from the perspectives of linguistic ethnography and sociolinguistics.

Research interests:

- Language and social media
- Language use across online and offline contexts
- Linguisitc and social normativity
- Youth culture and social media
- Social media and family socialization
- Media ideologies
- Linguistic diversity
- Everyday languaging
- Multi-sited ethnography and ethics

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Language and Social Media in the Familiy (SoMeFamily)

Social media is an integral part of contemporary everyday life and a central concern for educators and family advisers. Yet, very little is known about how social media communication functions within families or about the impact on family life of the everyday status of digital communication across different generations. With a linguistic ethnographic approach this project addresses which communicative functions social media serve among different family members in ten families selected among a cohort of adolescents in two high school classes. By a combined analytical focus on 1) digital communication cultures; 2) identity formations; 3) social relations and; 4) prevalent media and family ideologies it further investigates how social media influence family socialization in these families. By doing so the project contributes crucial new knowledge to research fields of media studies and family socialization and significantly nuances existing understandings of social media and family life.

The project is financed by The Danish Council for Independent Research / Sapere Aude Research Leader (https://dff.dk/forskningsprojekter/sapere-aude/forskningsleder/dff-forskningsleder-2017/andreas-candefors-staehr)

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KU Leuven

Audra Skukauskaite

University of Central Florida

Judith L Green

University of California, Santa Barbara

Massimo Leone

Università degli Studi di Torino

danah boyd

Microsoft Research

Sonja Eisenbeiss

University of Cologne

Scott Kiesling

University of Pittsburgh

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Kalevi Kull

University of Tartu

Eitan Grossman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Youth language

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Nov 15, 2022

The relation between youth and language has been a central focus point within sociolinguistics si... more The relation between youth and language has been a central focus point within sociolinguistics since the origin of the field (Labov 1966, 1972b). The notions of “youth language”, “youth languages”, “youth’s languages”, etc. have lent themselves to book titles, handbook chapters, and conference series. From this point of departure, a number of areas within sociolinguistics have been addressed. Typical themes can be exemplified through the areas included in the international conference on Youth Language/Jugendsprache: (1) youth languages in urban centres, (2) youth languages and dialect, (3) youth languages and empiricism (methods), (4) perception of age-related language variation, (5) youth languages and the media, and (6) social constructions of youth (Nortier 2018). On the one hand, this provides a good overview of the recent strands of research carried out in sociolinguistics under the umbrella term of youth language(s). On the other hand, as we will argue in this chapter, another more meta-scientific area could potentially be added: namely an analysis of the ideological acts carried out by sociolinguists when applying the notion of “youth language” and putting it to work. In connection to this, the idea of adolescents and youth language(s) play different roles in different research orientations. As an example, adolescents are seen as “inauthentic” in studies of dialect use (see below), as “movers and shakers” (Eckert 2000) in studies of language change, and as authentic and creative languagers in studies of languaging in urban multilingual environments and digitally mediated communication (Jørgensen et al. 2011). Since youth occupies quite different ideological positions within the different types of studies it is worthwhile to compare the arguments leading to these positions and discuss how they may enlighten one another to gain a more nuanced understanding of use of the notion of youth language(s) in contemporary sociolinguistics. This is the aim of our chapter.

Normativity as a social resource in social media practices

Everyday Languaging, 2016

In this chapter I describe how adolescent Facebook users from Copenhagen orient towards different... more In this chapter I describe how adolescent Facebook users from Copenhagen orient towards different norms of language use through self-corrections and other-corrections. The study of writing and orthographies has largely been neglected from a social point of view and studies of language and social meaning have traditionally involved analysis of spoken language (Sebba 2012: 1). In this chapter I suggest that the correction of language use give information about social relations among language users. I study the link between linguistic form and social relations by showing how young people use form corrections to more than just informing about and pointing to norms of language use.

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