Abstract This article investigates YouTube metalinguistic comments about language varieties in Ukraine as a “light” practice to demonstrate how knowledge and identities are negotiated online against the backdrop of larger sociopolitical discourses that circulate in and about Ukraine. This work adds to our understanding of online, or “light”, identity construction by suggesting that taking up epistemic stances and overtly asserting epistemic statuses are often a part of such identity work. Furthermore, deliberate linguistic choices not only serve to index identities but also create (dis)affiliations and thus can be deployed as a means of inclusion or exclusion from a particular online group, often shifting between (and integrating) local and global themes and audiences. The analysis shows how by drawing on repetition, deixis, pronouns, and lexical choices, YouTube commenters police, reify, and contest the extant language practices and underlying ideologies and in so doing create a foundation for grassroots ideological and political mobilization.

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通过“轻度”做法协商“浓密”身份：YouTube关于乌克兰语言的元语言评论

摘要本文研究了YouTube关于乌克兰语言种类的元语言学评论，以此作为一种“简便”的做法，以展示如何在乌克兰境内和周围流传着更大的社会政治言论的情况下在线协商知识和身份。这项工作表明，采取认知立场并公开主张认知状态通常是此类身份工作的一部分，从而加深了我们对在线或“轻型”身份建构的理解。此外，蓄意的语言选择不仅可以索引身份，还可以创建（取消）从属关系，因此可以被部署为从特定的在线群体中包容或排斥的手段，通常在（和整合）本地和全球主题和受众之间转移。分析表明如何利用重复，代词，代词，