Introduction. Langage et migration : état des lieux

Canut, Cécile; Guellouz, M.

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“…Davies & Bentahila (2008) add that literary code-switching "may also serve a poetic function, contributing to the aesthetic and rhetorical effects of discourse that is not spontaneous but carefully constructed" (p. 2). Gardner-Chloros & Weston (2015) also point out, among several other functions, that postcolonial authors in particular can use different linguistic codes in order to "get round the 3 A critique against these translingual approaches can be found in Canut (this book), and Canut & Guellouz (2018), who state that all language use is, by nature, heterogeneous. 4…”

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2. Subjectivity through translingual practice inOltre Babiloniaby Igiaba Scego

Skalle¹

2021

Transnational Narratives of Migration and Exile

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In this chapter, I examine translingual practice in the Italian polyphonic novel Oltre Babilonia by Igiaba Scego. Specifically, I analyze the main protagonist Zuhra's code-switching as heteroglossia and her translanguaging as an expression of identity and subjectivity. As a result of her language use, she is able to mix, play with, and challenge preconceptions of stable and unitary identities. Thus, through the translingual practice in the protagonist's speech, as well as through the novel's polyphonic narrative structure, Zuhra finds the means to express subjectivity and a coming to voice.

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Section: Translanguaging and Heteroglossiamentioning

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2. Subjectivity through translingual practice inOltre Babiloniaby Igiaba Scego

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2021

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“…Theories of translingualism (Kellman, 2000), code-meshing and translanguaging (Canagarajah, 2011) were originally developed to describe spoken discourse and interaction, but the use of multilingualism has also been studied in literary texts (e.g., Davies & Bentahila, 2008;Gardner-Chloros & Weston, 2015;Jaworski, 2014;N'Zengou-Tayo, 1996). However, recent sociolinguistic research on translingual practice has also come under criticism for the focus on individual agency, which may excessively underplay the power structures underlying translingual practice, as well as for essentializing this practice as inherently and radically different (Canut & Guellouz, 2018). Therefore, analyses of translingual practice should consider its ethical and political implications.…”

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“…Though in France, isolated work has been conducted rather early on from within the field of sociolinguistics of didactics of migratory paths (Vigouroux, 2003), it wasn't until the 2010s that the field of sociolinguistics of migration fully opened at the international level thanks to authors like Jacquemet (2005a, b), Pavlenko (2007), Miles (2009), Baynham et & de Fina (2005, Pennycook & Makoni (2007), Makoni (2012), García (2009), Creese & Blackledge (2010), Canagarajah (2013Canagarajah ( , 2017. For a more exhaustive review of literature, see Canut & Guellouz (2018).…”

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1. Can “migrants” speak? Voices, narratives and performances

Canut¹

2021

Transnational Narratives of Migration and Exile

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This chapter analyzes the multiple voices of exiles, asylum seekers, adventurers, travelers, or migrants. To understand migration processes, it is necessary to understand that language practices are social practices that create and throw into play interactional and socio-political contexts. In opposition to a media, state and police conception of the speech (parole) of exiles, a plethora of academic and artistic productions related to migration issues have shaped a new approach to mobility and language practices in Europe. By freeing the speech of exiles themselves, through life narratives in particular, these works offer a different perspective on women and men whose discourse and language registers have been obscured or erased. By shifting gazes, I suggest instead starting out from countries affected by mobility in order to observe language practices as social practices, where they emerge locally through cinema, radio, songs, rap, performances, novels, etc. Keywords migration | voices | narratives | performances | speech | semiotic | language practices 1. Can "migrants" speak? Voices, narratives and performances 1 As parole has no single English equivalent, the words 'speech' , 'voice' and 'words' have alternatively been used (we are referring here to the usual use of parole and not to the Saussure dichotomy langue/parole). 2 Here are some examples in France: Eldorado by Laurent Gaudé (J'ai Lu, 2009), Ulysses from Bagdad by Eric-Emmanuel Schmit (Albin Michel, 2008); Dans la peau d'un migrant by Arthur Frayer-Laleix (Fayard, 2015); Tous migrants ! (Gallimard, 2017); Brûle la mer by Berchache and Nathalie Nambot (2014); Les messagers by Crouzillat Hélène and Tura Laetitia (2014); La traversée by Mathieu Pernot (Le point du jour, 2014); the exhibition I AM WITH THEM: manifeste photographique pour les réfugiés, by Anne A-R., (Gründ, 2016); Weiwei's gesture imitating the dead child Aylan Kurdi. For information on the compassionate rhetoric of images, see Susan Sontag Devant la douleur des autres (Christian Bourgeois, 2003), in particular the analysis of Sebastião Salgado's exhibition Migrations : Humanity in Transition. Concerning the power of images, see Maaza Mengiste How not to photograph the Rohingya genocide in the making. 3The use of the terms "migrants" or "exiles" is not satisfactory, especially since those who they refer to use other terms ("aventuriers" 'adventurers' and "voyageurs" 'travelers' in French, but also many other terms stemming from local linguistic practices, see Canut & Ramos (2014) for West-Africa, for example). Therefore, we will be using several terms throughout this text in order not to settle on one or the other (see Canut, 2020).1. Can "migrants" speak? Voices, narratives and performances 1. Can "migrants" speak? Voices, narratives and performances

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Introduction. Langage et migration : état des lieux

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2. Subjectivity through translingual practice inOltre Babiloniaby Igiaba Scego

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