ABSTRACT
This virtual ethnographic study explores the language practices of 15 Bangladeshi university students on a Facebook page with the intriguing name of an imaginary university. The theoretical framework of transglossia by Sultana, Dovchin, and Pennycook (2015) is adopted to analyse these language practices that are associated with different university administrative and academic roles assumed by these students on this page. Furthermore, to understand their perspectives and deliberations behind these practices, interviews were conducted with the mock VC, pro-VC, registrar, proctor, and assistant proctor of this mock university. The analytical tools of transglossia provided deep insights into these anonymous virtual role-plays and unravelled the disguised criticisms expressed through the singularly witty and satirical content of this page that incorporated intentional orthographic twists and pejorative terms to express certain connotations. This study, thus, presents a critical transglossic exploration of the ways these youths engaged in these unique role-plays and ventured, both consciously and subconsciously, to raise their otherwise muted voices against different socio-political oppressions through the content of this page.
