Very Online
Keysmash, expressive lengthening ('sooooo'), emojis, and creative punctuation all show that online writing often functions like THIS.
What is spoken language or speech?
This linguistic ideology — powerful in nation-building — holds that a country should have a single, unified, standardized language, even though multilingualism is the global norm.
What is 'one nation, one language'?
This subfield of anthropology studies illness, healing, medical systems, and health across cultures — including linguistic and social dimensions of medicine.
What is medical anthropology?
Linganths argue that language doesn't just express religious belief — it actively mediates this relationship, making religion thinkable, feelable, and doable.
What is the relationship between religion and culture (or belief and practice)?
These # symbols aren't just labels — online they work as a discourse strategy, marking stance, joining conversations, and building publics.
What are hashtags?
This is the term for a community's use of two codes — often a 'high' and a 'low' variety — assigned to different settings and social functions.
What is diglossia?
The process by which everyday human conditions — sadness, shyness, aging, childbirth — come to be defined and treated as medical problems.
What is medicalization?
Research shows that prayer isn't just private speech — it's one of THESE: a recognizable communicative form with distinctive linguistic features and participation structures.
What is a genre?
The phenomenon in which previously separate social audiences — family, coworkers, friends, exes — all end up in the same digital space, making it hard to tailor a post to any one of them.
What is context collapse
When a speaker moves between languages following the grammatical rules of each, it's code-switching; when they blend them more freely within a single utterance, it's THIS.
What is code-mixing?
Studies of THESE — first-person accounts of suffering — show that people don't just report illness but actively make sense of it, cope with it, and reshape their identities through telling.
What are illness narratives?
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Unique participation structure, formal registers, honorifics, subjunctive mood, and language ABOUT what's being said — these are all examples of THIS.
What are linguistic features of prayer?
Online spaces like Discord servers, group chats, and forums can function as THESE — informal hangouts that, like pubs or barbershops, foster casual sociality and community.
What are 'third spaces' (or sites of consociality)?
This style of translation keeps the reader close to the original — even at the cost of some awkwardness — letting them feel the texture of the source language and culture.
What is source-oriented (or foreignizing) translation?
Research on THIS kind of interaction shows that patient identity, authority, and what counts as legitimate suffering are actively constructed — not just information exchanged.
What is doctor-patient interaction?
Linganths studying Black church services have challenged the idea that calls come only from preachers — showing that THIS audience role is itself an active, generative form of religious speech.
What is the congregation's response (call-and-response / 'Amen')?
Online ethnography — whether immersive cohabitation or internet-related fieldwork — counts as 'real' ethnography because online interaction IS this.
What is real social life (or a real cultural context)?
Connected to linguistic relativity, this concept holds that some meanings, experiences, or concepts resist full translation from one language or cultural world to another.
What is incommensurability?
Charles Briggs's term for the culturally and politically shaped processes through which health information — and ideas about who is healthy, sick, or at risk — circulate in society.
What is communicability?
These are first-person accounts of finding — or leaving — a faith; researchers show the telling doesn't just report transformation but helps bring it about.
What are (de)conversion narratives?