Normativity, power, and agency
On the chronotopic organization of orthographic conventions on social media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2880872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Taraneh Sanei (0000-0002-6571-4130, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 453-480 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404521000221 |
| OpenAlex | W3157997691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 49 |
This article examines Iranian social media users' understandings of normative behavior by focusing on a new online 'nonstandard' orthographic norm: the 'hekasreh'. Adopting a chronotopic approach to the study of discourse, I analyze Iranian Twitter users' social positionings towards the 'hekasreh' phenomenon. I show how tweeters invoke different spatiotemporal configurations, and the normative behaviors associated with them, to argue for and/or against this new orthographic norm. Focusing on the argumentative dynamics of the invoked chronotopes, I investigate the agentive and creative ways in which power is claimed and maintained in online spaces. This study, on the one hand, provides more empirical data to highlight the significance of attending to the online-offline nexus, and on the other hand argues for a more dynamic conceptualization of the interaction between normativity, power, and agency in online communication. (Social media, Farsi/Persian orthography, sociolinguistic normativity, chronotope, power, agency
Agency (philosophy) · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Linguistics · Norm (philosophy) · Normative · Online and offline · Power (physics) · Salient · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |