Digital multilingualism

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The Digital multilingualism front studies the transformations of Spanish and Portuguese, in contact with English, in the digital and multilingual environments of the Ibero-American space. It brings together sociolinguistics, the study of language contact, information theory and computational methods.

Research axes

1. Language and technology: how digital platforms modify the structures, functions and uses of language, and what role multimodal resources (emojis, memes, stickers and images) play in the production of meaning.
2. Language contact, bilingualism and multilingualism: how contact between Spanish, Portuguese and English manifests itself in digital environments.
3. Variation, sociolinguistics and change: which social, regional and technological factors condition variation, and how innovations spread, stabilise or disappear in digital communities.
4. Language as an information system: to what extent the concepts of entropy, redundancy, noise and compression explain phenomena of economy, ambiguity and efficiency in digital language.
5. Computational modelling: which computational methods make it possible to detect and describe patterns of variation, contact and code-switching in digital corpora, and to represent the diffusion of innovations in networks.

Writing assisted by artificial intelligence, machine translation, language teaching and Indigenous languages are treated in fronts of their own, described on the Research page.

Related publication

• Lenguaje digital y transformación del español: una revisión crítica del estado del arte, Revista Científica Humanidades, 2026.