Receptive multilingualism in 'monolingual' media : managing the presence of Slovak on Czech websites

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F13%3A10134350" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/13:10134350 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2013.789523" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2013.789523</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2013.789523" target="_blank" >10.1080/14790718.2013.789523</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Receptive multilingualism in 'monolingual' media : managing the presence of Slovak on Czech websites

Original language description

This paper investigates how the presence of a minority language closely related to the majority language is received and treated on the World Wide Web. Specifically, it deals with the acceptability and treatment of texts written in Slovak in the .cz domain, which belongs to the Czech Republic, more than a decade after the split of Czechoslovakia. Employing Language Management Theory and focusing on membership categorisation, the investigation first examines user comments which refer to the use of Slovakon .cz websites as inadequate or problematic. The analysis then proceeds in two directions: first, it deals with users' expectations regarding the use of Slovak on specific websites. Second, it focuses on how users and the website editors subsequently managed the problematic deviations from these expectations. As a result, the study centres around three phenomena which were shown to be relevant for the online participants: Internet nationalism, the intelligibility of Slovak to Czechs an

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Multilingualism

ISSN

1479-0718

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

196-213

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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