Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
LANGUAGE AWARENESS, cilt.33, sa.3, ss.468-487, 2024 (AHCI)
Based on a new Turkish social media influencer corpus consisting of 30 YouTube vlogs, this study explores young adults' translanguaging practices, prevalent linguistic events, and spatial repertoires in communication. The analysis focuses on vlogs, where linguistic resources become available in relation to the activities, audience, and organization of places or objects and young adults' translanguaging practices and their situated functions. The findings demonstrate how to use translanguaging as a comprehensive methodology to analyze communication unfolding with multimodal, multilingual, and digital semiotic repertoires at speakers' disposal and for the imagined audience integral to the communication in vlogs. Taking a corpus-linguistics perspective to translanguaging, we propose a usage-based focus and undertake a broader understanding of translanguaging as a linguistic and multimodal phenomenon.ABSTRACT (TURKISH)30 YouTube vlogundan olusan yeni bir Turk sosyal medya etkileyicileri derlemine dayanan bu calisma, genc yetiskinlerin diller otesi pratiklerini, vloglarda hakim olan dilsel olaylari ve iletisimdeki mekansal repertuarlarini incelemektedir. Analizin odaginda genc yetiskinlerin dilsel kaynaklarinin, etkinlikler, izleyici ve mekanlarin veya nesnelerin duzenlenmesi, diller otesi pratikler ve bu pratiklerin yerlesik islevleri ile iliskili olarak kullanilabilir hale geldigi vloglar bulunmaktadir. Bulgular, vloglardaki iletisimin ayrilmaz bir parcasi olan hayali izleyici icin uretilen iletisimin konusmacilarin tasarrufunda olan coklu modlu, cokdilli ve dijital gostergesel repertuarlar ile bir butun oldugunu ve bu iletisimi cozumlemek icin kapsamli bir metodoloji olan diller otesilik kuraminin kullanilabilecegini gostermektedir. Bu calisma, diller otesiligi derlembilim destekli bir yaklasimla ele alarak, kullanima dayali bir odak onermekte ve diller otesiligi dilbilimsel ve cok modlu bir olgu olarak daha kapsamli bir anlayisla ele almaktadir. In our research, we look at how people use language in their everyday online videos (vlogs). Central to our study is the concept of translanguaging. It is a practical theory of language that helps us understand how people use different languages together, get creative with language, and create new ways of communicating online. This perspective goes beyond the traditional view, which treats multilingualism as simply switching between distinct linguistic systems. This is especially important on social media where global and local influences interact, and users access new activity spaces. We built a specialized corpus that contains 30 vlogs of six Turkish social media influencers on YouTube and used software called ELAN. This helped us analyze how they use both languages and visuals to communicate. What we found is that these influencers translanguage, use unique expressions, and include visual elements to connect with their audience online. Our study also emphasizes how interpreting and self--interpreting in translanguaging helps convey meaning for an imagined audience. By studying these practices, we learn more about how language works in today's social media spaces and how it challenges our traditional conceptions of language.