Using Silence to “Pass”: Embodiment and Interactional Categorization in a Diasporic Context

Multilingua ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Linguistic Practices

AbstractThis article posits that “passing” is a manipulation of ambiguously embodied characteristics, linguistic practice, and ratification by other speakers. I explore discourses and practices of “passing” by post-migrant generation, diasporically-resident Moroccans who seek to be unmarked by migration when bargaining in Moroccan markets. Their attempts have many possibilities for failure, including any way that their diasporic provenance might be made relevant in interaction through their embodied and linguistic practices. This connection between embodiment and linguistic practices becomes more evident in a unique case of bargaining “success”, which depends on using silence. Framed by all the possible ways to fail, the main interactional example is exceptional because of its success-by-not-failing: the diasporically-resident participant was not conversationally, explicitly marked as “diasporic”.

scholarly journals The spatial logic of linguistic practice: Bourdieusian inroads into language and internationalization in academe

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Linus Salö
Keyword(s):  
Interview Data ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Spatial Logic ◽  
Linguistic Practices

ABSTRACT This article utilizes Bourdieu's sociology to grasp the relations between linguistic practice and spatiality, and, through that effort, to position language as a pivotal terrain in internationalizing academe. Empirically, it explores Swedish academe and the linguistic practices of its dwellers: Swedish-speaking and non-Swedish-speaking researchers in four disciplines. Here, Swedish co-exists with English as a lingua franca and other languages. Observational and interview data show that this situation gives rise to complex linguistic practices in the workplace, consisting of speakers alternating between Swedish and English or evading other languages. Following Bourdieu, these phenomena manifest in moments when matters of space are rendered salient. They show that linguistic practice is bound up with space to the extent that their interrelationship becomes discernable only when the spatial logic that confines linguistic practices is rejigged. While linguistic practices seemingly operate on a location-based principle, they actually pertain to speakers’ linguistic habitus in relation to the linguistic market conditions in play. (Linguistic practice, space, internationalizing academe)*

Linguistic Practice, Gaelic Use and Language Socialisation: Findings from Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-107
Author(s):  
Stuart Dunmore
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Consistent Relationship ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Home And School ◽  
At Home

Considering the overarching question of Gaelic language use, this chapter draws attention firstly to the varying degrees to which interview participants claim to use the Gaelic language in the present day. Three discernible categories or extents of use are apparent in interviewees’ accounts with respect to their present-day linguistic practices. The discussion subsequently considers two particular types of Gaelic use that are frequently reported within the interview corpus, relating to code-switching and use of Gaelic as a ‘secret’ language. As will be demonstrated, there exists a consistent relationship between higher levels of Gaelic ability and use in the present day, as there is between high levels of Gaelic use and past socialisation in the language at home and school. Triangulation of the qualitative and quantitative datasets thus produces a clear picture of limited ongoing Gaelic use among the majority of 130 Gaelic-medium educated adults who participated in the study, particularly in respect of the key domains of home and community.

scholarly journals Pragmatics of Understanding: Centrality of the Local

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Verbal Exchange ◽  
Linguistic Practices

Abstract Cross-cultural contrastive approaches motivate research that questions the universality premise of pragmatic theories by illustrating facts of local linguistic practices from diverse geographical areas. In the spirit of my earlier studies of Japanese (e.g. Matsumoto 1988, 1989), I suggest that contrastive pragmatics can lead the field of pragmatics to addressing variations in linguistic practice that go beyond the geographical diversity of cultures and encompass other types of “atypical” discourse, such as discourse of speakers with varied cognitive conditions including persons with Alzheimer’s. This paper argues for the pragmatics of understanding, i.e. the language users’ and the analysts’ efforts (i) to understand what speakers are trying to convey in verbal interaction and (ii) to understand local pragmatic principles of verbal exchange, and thereby to encourage more inclusive studies of pragmatics.

scholarly journals ON THE EMERGENCE OF A GULF ENGLISH VARIETY: A SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Suleiman Daoud Alshurafa Nuha
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Fast Process ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Native Identity ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
Natural Outcome ◽  
Linguistic Practices

The paper discusses the question of Linguistic identity in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (henceforth CCASG). The notion of identity is analysed with reference to linguistic practices as a sociocultural means of communication. The existing register is a natural outcome on which the vast and fast process of modernization is reflected. The paper discusses a corpus of the Gulf register to seek an answer for the question of how the Arabic Gulf native identity impacts the English linguistic practice, as an interdisciplinary and integrative part in the sociocultural approach. Arabic meets with English as a global non-native variety of English and results in the new Gulf code. The result of the examination of linguistic practices confirm that identity in the Gulf reflects a cultural transformation and does not resist the new linguistic and sociocultural system. The selected theoretical framework for the analysis is drawn from a variety of linguistic sub-disciplines and research traditions. The sociocultural approach is selected for this study as it is the most applicable.

Melanosarcoma (Malignant Melanoma) of the Rectosigmoid : Report of a Unique Case

1949 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Behrend ◽  
Albert Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Malignant Melanoma ◽  
Unique Case

An unique case of celiac disease with hypocoagulation and secondary hyperparathyreodism in elderly patient - a case report

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gocha Barbakadze ◽  
Lali Tigishvili ◽  
Levan Ramishvili ◽  
Nani Tsikarishvili ◽  
Koba Burnadze
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Patient ◽  
Celiac Disease ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Unique Case

A Giant Right Coronary Artery of Diffuse Ectasia Induced by a Right Ventricular Fistula

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Renyuan Li ◽  
Yiming Ni ◽  
Peng Teng ◽  
Weidong Li
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Right Coronary Artery ◽  
Artery Bypass ◽  
Coronary Artery Fistula ◽  
Rare Entity ◽  
Fistula Closure ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Coronary Ectasia ◽  
The Right ◽  
Giant Size

<p>Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is a rare entity. Sometimes it may associate with mild diffuse or segmental coronary ectasia. CAF with giant coronary artery is exceptionally rare. We present a unique case of a 49-year-old female patient with a giant right coronary artery of diffuse ectasia coexisting with a fistula draining into the right ventricle. To our best knowledge, CAF with diffuse coronary ectasia of such giant size has never been reported. The patient was treated successfully by resection of the dilated right coronary artery, fistula closure, and coronary artery bypass grafting.</p>

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