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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">37233</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-35807</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">YJJURK</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative: Resemiotized chronotopes as markers of identity</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Транслокализация пространства старой Нубии в цифровом повествовании: ресемиотизированные хронотопы как маркеры идентичности</trans-title></trans-title-group><trans-title-group xml:lang="zh"><trans-title/></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3638-0514</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Fawzy</surname><given-names>Rania Magdi</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Фаузи</surname><given-names>Рания Магди</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor of applied linguistics at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transportation, Cairo, Egypt. She is also an editorial board member for Discourse Context &amp; Media, Elsevier. Her work in linguistics contributes to research and debates within a wide range of interrelated disciplines including sociology, communication, journalism, political science and virtual reality genres. Her areas of research interest include pragmatics, social semiotics and multimodality, with a present focus on understanding communication in a post-digital era and algorithmic governance.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент кафедры прикладной лингвистики Арабской академии науки, технологий и морского транспорта (Каир, Египет). Она также является членом редакционного совета журнала Discourse Context &amp; Media (Elsevier). Ее работы охватывают широкий спектр смежных дисциплин, включая социологию, коммуникацию, журналистику, политологию и жанры виртуальной реальности. Области ее научных интересов включают прагматику, социальную семиотику и мультимодальность; в настоящее время она также занимается проблемами алгоритмического управления и коммуникации в постцифровую эпоху.</p></bio><email>raniamagdi@aast.edu</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Arab Academy for Science, Technology &amp; Maritime Transport</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Арабская академия науки, технологий и морского транспорта</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Modern Languages and Cultures: Varieties, Functions  and Ideologies in Cognitive Perspective</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Современные языки и культуры:  вариативность, функции и идеологии  в когнитивном аспекте</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="zh"/><fpage>843</fpage><lpage>864</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-12-29"><day>29</day><month>12</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Fawzy R.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Фаузи Р.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2023, Fawzy R.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Fawzy R.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Фаузи Р.М.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Fawzy R.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/37233">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/37233</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Digitality is closely related to and expressed within analogicity, offering a sense of intersectional continuity between the online and offline realms. However, this poses a theoretical and conceptual challenge, particularly when addressing the heterogenous notion of contemporary diaspora as a phenomenon of online/offline and past/present co-constituency. To this end, this article advances a semio-chronotopic approach to reclaiming indigenous identities. It aims at decentring the concept of spatial dispersal by situating diaspora within a temporal continuum. The article investigates the Nubian Facebook* page Al Nuba Café in this concern. Deployment of the notion of resemiotization enables us to analyse narrative networks of Nubian diaspora as mediatized through digital space. It is found that Nubian online narrative shows a chronotopic condition of coeval alignment in which the two identity events before and after the displacement are kept conflated. The posts are found to blur the boundaries between the spatiotemporal there-and-then of the story and of the here-and-now of the storytelling world. The study concludes that Nubian digital tellings of diaspora are organized within a continuum of specific chronotopes that vacillate between past and present, spatial yearning and temporal nostalgia, statehood and diaspora, roots and routes, delineating an umbrella chronotope of the changing same. This semio-chronotopic conceptualisation of Nubian diaspora acknowledges the centrality of translocal temporality in its manifestation. Accordingly, the study argues that while space is considered the primary measure of diaspora in the analogue contexts, digital context emphasizes a rather the temporal dimension which dynamically participates in the reproduction of translocal diaspora experiences.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Цифровая информация тесно связана с аналоговой, что проявляется в ощущении непрерывности между онлайн- и оффлайн-сферами. Это порождает теоретическую и концептуальную проблему, особенно когда речь идет о гетерогенном понятии «современная диаспора» как о феномене, одновременно представляемом онлайн и оффлайн с позиций прошлого и настоящего. В связи с этим в данной статье предлагается семио-хронотопический подход к возрождению самобытности коренных народов. Исследование нацелено на децентрализацию понятия пространственного рассредоточения путем рассмотрения диаспоры во временном континууме. В частности, нубийская диаспора исследуется как хронотопический набор признаков, которые проявляются в ресемиотизированной индексальности территориального перемещения этой диаспоры, имевшего место в прошлом. В статье исследуются посты на эту тему на нубийской странице Al Nuba Café в Facebook*. Использование понятия ресемиотизации позволяет проанализировать нарративные связи нубийской диаспоры, опосредованные цифровым пространством. Обнаружено, что нубийское онлайн-повествование демонстрирует хронотопическое совмещение событий до и после перемещения диаспоры. Нарративы стирают границы между пространственно-временным соотношением хронотопа «здесь и тогда» и «здесь и сейчас». По итогам исследования сделан вывод, что нубийские цифровые нарративы о диаспоре строятся в континууме конкретных хронотопов, которые отражают взаимосвязь между прошлым и настоящим, тягой к пространственному перемещению и временной ностальгией, государственностью и диаспорой, а также корнями и маршрутами, очерчивающими зонтичный хронотоп динамического понятия. С помощью этой семио- хронотопической концептуализации нубийской диаспоры обнаруживается центральная роль транслокальной темпоральности в ее дискурсивной реализации. Соответственно, в исследовании утверждается, что, хотя пространство считается основным мерилом диаспоры в аналоговых контекстах, цифровой контекст тяготеет к временному измерению, которое динамически воспроизводит опыт перемещенной диаспоры.</p></trans-abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="zh"/><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>chronotopes</kwd><kwd>digital narrative</kwd><kwd>hybrid identity</kwd><kwd>resemiotization</kwd><kwd>translocal diaspora</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>хронотоп</kwd><kwd>цифровое повествование</kwd><kwd>гибридная идентичность</kwd><kwd>ресемиотизация</kwd><kwd>перемещенная диаспора</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abdel-Hafiz, Ahmed. 2007. The attitude of Egyptian Nubians towards their vernaculars and Arabic. 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