Language mobility from a sociolinguistic perspective (A case study of some dialect variations in modern Vietnamese)…………….

Abstract

This article discusses language mobility, focusing on describing the mobility of dialects in Vietnamese. Considered to be an inevitable phenomenon in the modern sociolinguistic landscape, linguistic mobility can be seen through the phenomenon of linguistic variations which “shift” from a certain "location""to another "location". To clarify this shift, the article analyzes the trend of some dialects that are only used in certain geographical areas are now moving widespread and popular into communications on social and mass media. It should be recognized as linguistic mobility, a concept related to superdiversity in today's new sociolinguistic situation. The purpose of the research is to introduce language mobility, a concept within the theoretical framework of "superdiversity", to contribute to further understanding of the modern sociolinguistic situation.