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Record Nr.

UNINA9910773605203321

Autore

Kerfoot Caroline

Titolo

Entangled discourses : South-North orders of visibility / / edited by Caroline Kerfoot and Kenneth Hyltenstam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2017

New York : , : Routledge, , [2017]

ISBN

1-317-27572-1

1-315-64000-7

1-317-27573-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

Altri autori (Persone)

HyltenstamKenneth

KerfootCaroline

StroudChristopher

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Language and languages - Globalization

Language policy - Globalization

Education, Bilingualism - Globalization

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Southern perspectives -- pt. II. South-North entanglements -- pt. III. Northern perspectives -- pt. IV. North-South dynamics in research and knowledge production.

Sommario/riassunto

This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as ethnicity and race. The chapter illustrates the disjunctive interplays of visibility and invisibility that characterize the trajectory of a Cameroonian immigrant student, Aline, as she moves through new diasporic and educational spaces in Cape Town. It examines Aline's gradual invisibilization as an indexical process achieved through a set of inter-related semiotic phenomena



such as those identified by Bucholtz and Hall: explicit use of identity labels, implicatures and presuppositions regarding identity positions, and evaluative and epistemic stances in relation to ongoing talk. The chapter also analyzes, first, how stances are interdiscursively achieved or disbarred and, second, how the accretion and/or absence of stances over time have longer lasting consequences, helping to construct more durable social categories.