Language and Belonging

Rita Vallentin

ISBN 10: 363173560X / ISBN 13: 9783631735602

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2019, 2019

Beschreibung

Neuware -In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories ¿ indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conversation analysis and an analysis of narrative as practice bolstered with ethnographic knowledge, the author shows how belonging is tied to locally contextualized use of deictics and to collectively shared narrations of the past in a Guatemalan community. The book examines the understudied phenomenon of belonging at the intersection of pragmatics and linguistic anthropology. 320 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631735602

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Language and Belonging
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 363173560X
• ISBN-13: 9783631735602
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 22 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 22 mm
• Gewicht: 528 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The book deals with the relationship between speakers' sense of belonging and their language use by examining their interactions in a Guatemalan community. The analysis shows that belonging is tied to the use of social, spatial and temporal categories, the relations between them, and collectively shared linguistic practices.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rita Vallentin is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Working at the intersection of linguistics and sociology, she focuses on the relations of belonging and identification with linguistic practices, especially in Hispanophone and Lusophone communities.