Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape

Siqing Mu; Peiyu Ma; Lili Han

doi:10.1080/14708477.2025.2468889

Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape

Siqing Mu, Peiyu Ma, Lili Han

Faculty of Applied Sciences

Macao Polytechnic University

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Abstract

This study explores the translanguaging practices of Chinese multilingual youth in ‘Citywalk’ vlogging, focusing on Macao's linguistic landscape. Using multimodal analysis of three vlogs selected from Bilibili, the research examines how multilingual and multisemiotic resources shape vloggers' urban perspectives and meaning-making beyond linguistic boundaries. The study highlights how vloggers act as agents in documenting personal experiences and emotions through creative depictions of cityscapes. The findings suggest that Citywalk vlogging offers a significant space for translanguaging practices.

Original language	English
Journal	Language and Intercultural Communication
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2468889
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2025

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Citywalk
linguistic landscape
multimodality
translanguaging
vlogs

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