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Conversations of Intercultural Couples
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Kellie Goncalves
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
About this book
Auf der Grundlage empirisch erhobenen Sprachmaterials untersucht die Studie das diskursive Aushandeln von Sprache und Identität innerhalb der intimsten "Community of Practice (CofP)", der Ehe zwischen interkulturellen Sprachpartnern. Die Studie ist in die sozialpsychologischen Konzepte von Identität und "Positioning" eingebettet. So wird am Beispiel von Interviews mit interkulturellen Paaren - genauer: englische Muttersprachler/innen, die mit deutschsprachigen Schweizer/innen verheiratet sind, in einer diglossen Sprachregion in der Zentralschweiz leben und über drei Jahre interviewt wurden - die Verhandlung und Performanz hybrider Identitäten analysiert und gezeigt, wie "doing Swiss" diskursiv ko-konstruiert und ausgehandelt wird. This book presents an empirical study that examines intercultural couples' reasons for specific language practices and investigates the negotiation and performances of hybrid identities within the marital unit, the most intimate community of practice (CofP). The theoretical framework adopted draws on the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity and the social psychological theory of positioning. The data stem from ethnographic observation and recordings carried out over a three-year period with intercultural couples, namely Anglophones married to native German-speaking Swiss, who reside in central Switzerland, where a diglossic situation prevails. The positionings individuals take up or refute indicate that the performance of "doing Swiss" is not only discursively co-constructed, but a site where the negotiation of meaning emerges within the context of social interaction.
Author / Editor information
Kellie Gonçalves ist Assistentin der Modernen Englischen Linguistik an der Universität Bern, Schweiz.
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eBook published on:
October 24, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9783050064970
Hardcover published on:
September 26, 2013
Hardcover ISBN:
9783050060552
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
236
Illustrations:
8
Tables:
4
Keywords for this book
Identität; Positioning; doing identity; Community of Practice (CofP); Diglossie; performance; sociolinguistics; intercultural marriage
Audience(s) for this book
Das Buch richtet sich an Linguisten, Soziologen, Anthropologen sowie Gender-Forscher.
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