ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the linguistic means used by bloggers and readers to construct themselves as members of the community, with a focus on the joint construction of a supranational identity as a Latin American or Latino immigrant. It focuses on three strategies includes the explicit naming of the category in question and self-categorizing oneself as belonging to it, and building a contrast between 'us' and 'them', and referring to common world knowledge and common experience. Canada pursues an active immigration policy based on a point system that rewards language skills, formal education, and professional experience. The chapter presents the construction of a supranational Latino identity while at the same time paying attention to other national and regional identities. It shows that, from a linguistic and methodological point of view, Internet data are in fact open to reconstruct the renegotiation or joint construction of categorical values along discourse and conversation analytical lines.
