Introduction: Language and speakerhood in migratory contexts
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Rosina Márquez Reiter
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Luisa Martín Rojo
Abstract
This special issue brings together a collection of case studies that examine the making of speakerhood as experienced by migrants in Spain and Portugal. It focuses on moments in the life course of speakers as they navigate across transnational contexts where they face various linguistic demands. This involves being confronted with the norms, requirements and the values that define who is considered to be a speaker of the “language” or “languages” of the receiving community and being assessed in accordance with a given measure, that is, a canon of speakerhood in a particular community. The findings reveal the complexity of linguistic appropriation and the fundamental inclusive and exclusive nature of the making of a speaker in a world characterized by ambivalent historicities and uncertain investment outcome. The special issue allows critical questioning of notions such as nativeness and new speakerness through a theoretical and political engagement with speakerhood, and to interrogate what it means for whom to navigate linguistically and socially in receiving societies where personhood remains solidly attached to speakerhood.
Acknowledgements
Research leading to this article benefitted from ongoing discussions on the “new speaker” theme as part of the EU COST Action IS1306 network entitled “New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges”.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Language and speakerhood in migratory contexts
- Language surveillance: Pressure to follow local models of speakerhood among Latinx students in Madrid
- Biographizing migrant experience
- Unvoicing practices in classroom interaction in Galicia (Spain): The (de)legitimization of linguistic mudes through scaling
- When language mixing is the norm: documenting post-muda language choice in a state school in Barcelona
- Language socialisation and muda: The case of two transnational migrants in Emmaus Barcelona
- Linguistic mudes: An exploration over the linguistic constitution of subjects
- Book Review
- Monica Heller Bonnie McElhinny: Language, capitalism, colonialism: Toward a critical history
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Language and speakerhood in migratory contexts
- Language surveillance: Pressure to follow local models of speakerhood among Latinx students in Madrid
- Biographizing migrant experience
- Unvoicing practices in classroom interaction in Galicia (Spain): The (de)legitimization of linguistic mudes through scaling
- When language mixing is the norm: documenting post-muda language choice in a state school in Barcelona
- Language socialisation and muda: The case of two transnational migrants in Emmaus Barcelona
- Linguistic mudes: An exploration over the linguistic constitution of subjects
- Book Review
- Monica Heller Bonnie McElhinny: Language, capitalism, colonialism: Toward a critical history
