Fighting words and challenging expectations: language alternation and social roles in a family dispute

Williams, Ashley M.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2004.10.005

Cited by 33 publications

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“…In recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers in applying the CA/MCA approach to the situated accomplishment of identity in bilingual interaction (Auer 1998(Auer , 2005Bailey 2002 Gafaranga 2001Gafaranga , 2005Li Wei 2005;Williams 2005). Gafaranga (2001) points out that speakers categorize themselves and one another either as monolingual or as bilingual and in which language, and that language preference can therefore become a membership categorization device Ϫ a means by which identity categories are organized.…”

Section: Ca/mca Studies Of Identity In Bilingual Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair

Greer

2008

Mult

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Speakers often perform impromptu translations during bilingual interaction. Such translations can hold a wide variety of socio-pragmatic functionsincluding reiteration, emphasis, recasting, and repair. When translations occur in multi-party talk where the interactants are of mixed linguistic proficiencies, they may also serve to include interlocutors who have been excluded from prior talk that was delivered in their weaker language. In this respect, translations re-partition interactants in an inclusive way. Making use of both conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorization analysis (MCA), this paper examines a collection of such post-exclusionary translations video-recorded among JapaneseϪEnglish bilingual teenagers at an international school. A detailed sequential analysis of this bilingual practice reveals that the act of translation makes relevant various elements of the speakers' and recipients' identities. When a bilingual speaker offers a translation to someone, he or she casts the recipient in the category of novice (or 'non-native'), often even despite real-time claims to comprehension from that person. Indeed, the study found that when nonnatives offered a receipt token after a turn delivered in a medium that was not assumed to belong to them, it often prompted the speaker to repeat the prior turn in the recipient's preferred medium.

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Section: Ca/mca Studies Of Identity In Bilingual Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair

Greer

2008

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“…Furthermore, like Evaldsson's (2005) conclusions about pre-adolescent insults, insults in the data examined in this paper are co-constructed in interaction, and they are used to index membership in ethnoracial, national, and linguistic communities. This approach is exemplified by Gafaranga (2005Gafaranga ( , 2001, Cashman (2005b), Williams (2005) and Sebba and Wootton (1998), among many others. analyst's best guess at talk ((double par.))…”

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Accomplishing marginalization in bilingual interaction: Relational work as a resource for the intersubjective construction of identity

Cashman

2008

Mult

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This paper examines the use of impoliteness by SpanishϪEnglish bilingual pre-adolescents as a resource for accomplishing identities in spontaneous conversational interactions in an elementary school setting. The theoretical approach employed integrates the concept of relational work (Locher 2004;Locher and Watts 2005), which is based on Goffman's (1967) notion of face and which privileges participants' evaluation of language behavior within the norms of the community of practice, with recent work in sociocultural linguistics (Bucholtz and Hall 2004a, 2004b. This approach views identity as an interactional achievement reached through the use of what they call tactics of intersubjectivity. In this analysis, negatively marked, non-politic behavior is viewed as an interactional resource, which, along with other resources such as codeswitching, bilingual speakers may employ for the purposes of alignment and stance-taking. Specifically, the paper examines how speakers use strategies referred to as impolite (cf. Culpeper 1996) in the performance of a variety of tactics of intersubjectivity to manage local identities (e.g., leader/follower, insider/outsider) as well as membership in broad social categories (e.g., gender, ethnic identities) in interaction, how they engage in conflict talk and what they gain from it, and how codeswitching is (and is not) used in interactions. This analysis is situated within the wider social context of language politics and immigration politics in the individual school, the region, and the US.

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“…In multicultural and multilingual intergenerational relationships, and particularly those involving diasporic immigrant populations, that is not always the case. For example, in Williams's (2005) study of Chinese-Americans living in Michigan, children were found to yield more power than the parents. One mother, May, in seeking advice from her child, Liz, ceded her daughter the power, yet reminded her daughter who the adult was, standing up for herself when the daughter made negative remarks about her mother's decision-making processes.…”

Section: Family's Negotiation Of Meaningmentioning

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Talking with Abuelo: Performing Authenticity in a Multicultural, Multisited Family

Vidal¹

2015

Multilingua

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Taking an interactional sociolinguistic approach, this study explores how multicultural and multilingual siblings interact with their Spanish grandfather and how, through the use of styling and stylization in these interactions, they negotiate and construct multicultural family identities. Using Tannen's power and solidarity framework, I analyze three excerpts from a seven-hour corpus of naturally occurring face-to-face recorded conversations between my sisters, my grandfather, and myself, from 1984 in Spain to explore how speakers use stylization to identify themselves as legitimate members of a multilingual and multicultural family, ranging from acts of identity to mockery. The analyses show that while stylization provided Abuelo with resources for creating harmony with his granddaughters as he reappropriated their Spanish usage, it also created a source for mockery among the sisters. In their conversations with their grandfather, the granddaughters used stylization to perform acts of identity through reported speech about their experiences in Spain and their feelings about their extended family, and this styled them as dutiful granddaughters. Finally, Abuelo styled himself as the authority figure in the house by speaking English to the girls, albeit an English heavily influenced by his Spanish. In response, the granddaughters stylized him, mocking his authority in the process. The study demonstrates how stylization is intimately tied with acts of identity and underscores the affiliative and disaffiliative interactional stances for creating authenticity in a transnational family.

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Fighting words and challenging expectations: language alternation and social roles in a family dispute

Cited by 33 publications

References 7 publications

Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair

Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair

Accomplishing marginalization in bilingual interaction: Relational work as a resource for the intersubjective construction of identity

Talking with Abuelo: Performing Authenticity in a Multicultural, Multisited Family

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