Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: ‘Pizza mo two minutes coming’

Pennycook, Alastair; Otsuji, Emi

doi:10.1111/josl.12079

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“…This leads to the emergence of “spatial repertoires” which are defined by the communicative resources available to interactants in a particular place (Nevile et al, 2014; Pennycook and Otsuji, 2014). Encounters between agents in an ecology are developed and maintained over various time frames, with the effect that “future interactions occur in a new and adaptive way” (Pickering, 1997, p. 192).…”

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Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction

2018

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Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (Parmentier, 1994; Clark, 1996; Johnston, 1996; Kendon, 2004). Varied semiotic repertoires combine in different ways, the details of which are rooted in the interactions occurring in a specific time and place (Goodwin, 2000; Kusters et al., 2017). However, intense focus in linguistics on conventionalized symbolic form/meaning pairings (especially those which are arbitrary) has obscured the importance of other semiotics in face-to-face communication. A consequence is that the communicative practices resulting from diverse ways of being (e.g., deaf, hearing) are not easily united into a global theoretical framework. Here we promote a theory of language that accounts for how diverse humans coordinate their semiotic repertoires in face-to-face communication, bringing together evidence from anthropology, semiotics, gesture studies and linguistics. Our aim is to facilitate direct comparison of different communicative ecologies. We build on Clark’s (1996) theory of language use as ‘actioned’ via three methods of signaling: describing, indicating, and depicting. Each method is fundamentally different to the other, and they can be used alone or in combination with others during the joint creation of multimodal ‘composite utterances’ (Enfield, 2009). We argue that a theory of language must be able to account for all three methods of signaling as they manifest within and across composite utterances. From this perspective, language—and not only language use—can be viewed as intentionally communicative action involving the specific range of semiotic resources available in situated human interactions.

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Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction

2018

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“…Scollon and Scollon's notion of geosemiotics (2003) aims to offer an integrative view of multiple semiotic systems in forming the "place" which is conceptualised as a social category in the same manner as space. 1 Most recently, Pennycook and Otsuji (2014) proposed the term "spatial repertories," i.e. linguistic resources available in a particular place, to examine the ways in which "linguistic resources, activities and urban space are bound together" (161).…”

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Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space

2017

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“…At the time of recording, the supermarket employed 21 staff members of Luxembourgish, German, French, Belgian, Cape Verdean, Russian, and Senegalese origins. The linguistic repertoire (Pennycook and Otsuji ) of the market was comprised mainly of Luxembourgish, French, German, and English, although the individual repertoires of all staff members included a broader range of languages. Interactions between staff members were characterized by a high degree of multilingual practices.…”

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“One does not say Moien, one has to say Bonjour”: Expressing Language Ideologies through Shifting Stances in Spontaneous Workplace Interactions in Luxembourg

Franziskus

2016

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Drawing on both a language ideological framework and the concept of stancetaking (Jaffe 2009), this article analyzes how different language ideologies are constructed, shared, contested and reproduced in spontaneous interactions in multilingual Luxembourg. The analysis focuses on two conversations recorded in two multilingual workplaces in Luxembourg. In the first one, staff members from an IT company discuss the status of written Luxembourgish. In the second, several employees from a supermarket debate the appropriateness of different greeting routines in the local context. In both of these interactions, participants take up different stances towards Luxembourgish as a legitimate code and towards monolingual ideologies. The findings show that the different stance‐taking moves of the participants reflect their positions as either ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’ to this ideologically charged setting and are reminiscent of some broader societal stances in relation to language. The findings highlight three positions in particular: There is the long‐term resident who alternately takes an expert stance towards the local language and distancing himself from it to create solidarity with his work colleagues. Then there is the cross‐border worker, a relative newcomer, who is still in the process of ‘making his way’ into the sociolinguistic context by adopting greeting routines. And finally, there is the young Luxembourger whose stances are reminiscent both of the need for the local population to adjust to an increased number of newcomers and their sometimes conflicting ideological stances and of the generational shift in the use of Luxembourgish.

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Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: ‘Pizza mo two minutes coming’

Cited by 145 publications

References 39 publications

Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction

Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction

Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space

“One does not say Moien, one has to say Bonjour”: Expressing Language Ideologies through Shifting Stances in Spontaneous Workplace Interactions in Luxembourg

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