Editorial Introduction : normativities of languaging from the Global South : the social media discourse

This article collection is based on the premise that the analytic potential of the languaging in the social media discourse, however, can be enhanced through a stronger focus on such practices as reflective of normativity, everyday, quotidian, basic, mundane, unremarkable, banal, and ordinary from the Global South perspectives rather than as peculiar, exotic, exceptional, eccentric, unconventional, or strange from the view of the Global North. It is essential to recognize that languaging is ’neither to celebrate nor to deplore, but something to observe and examine with interest like anything else’ Nevertheless, simultaneously, given the exceptionalizing tendencies of languaging scholarship, it has become more urgent to acknowledge that there is nothing abnormal, exotic, odd, or perhaps even ‘exciting’ about linguistic creativity from the Global South perspective, as it is inevitable that peoples and cultures have always been mixing and mingling in the Global South.