Conversations of Intercultural Couples
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Conversations of Intercultural Couples

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  2. English
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Conversations of Intercultural Couples

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Dieses Buch ist eine empirische Studie, die individuelle GrĂŒnde fĂŒr spezifische Sprachpraktiken und fĂŒr die Verhandlung und Performanz hybrider IdentitĂ€ten innerhalb der intimsten "Community of Practice (CofP)", der Ehe, untersucht. Die der Studie zugrundeliegenden Daten stammen zum einen aus ethnographischen Beobachtungen, die ĂŒber drei Jahre durchgefĂŒhrt wurden; zum anderen aus Interviews mit interkulturellen Paaren, genauer mit Personen englischer Muttersprache, die mit deutschsprachigen SchweizerInnen verheiratet sind und in einer diglossen Sprachregion in der Zentralschweiz leben. Die Studie nimmt eine interdisziplinĂ€re Perspektive ein, welche sich dem soziokulturellen linguistischen Zugang zu IdentitĂ€t und der sozialpsychologischen Theorie des "Positioning" bedient. Der neuartige theoretische Ansatz dieses Buches besteht aus der Rekonzeptualisierung von IdentitĂ€t, da die emische Perspektive der UntersuchungsteilnehmerInnen miteinbezogen wird. Diese können sich nĂ€mlich nicht von der sozial konstruierten Idee einer stabilen IdentitĂ€t trennen, obwohl sie zugeben, Teil gewisser soziokultureller Darstellungen zu sein. Die Analyse zeigt, wie Individuen ihre statischen und dynamischen IdentitĂ€ten diskursiv konstruieren. Weiter wird die Bedeutung expliziter wie auch impliziter IdentitĂ€tsansprĂŒche individueller TeilnehmerInnen hervorgehoben und durch die Unterscheidung zweier Arten von IdentitĂ€t - situated und situationalidentities - illustriert. Die Ansichten der TeilnehmerInnen selbst fĂŒgt eine weitere Ebene zu jeglicher soziologischen, anthropologischen und linguistischen Analyse von Menschen in Diasporas hinzu. WĂ€hrend postmoderne Definitionen IdentitĂ€t als multivalent betrachten und die interaktionale Soziolinguistik IdentitĂ€t als emergent versteht, wird hier fĂŒr eine Auseinandersetzung mit IdentitĂ€t argumentiert, welche essentialistische Vorstellungen nicht verwirft, da sich Individuen selbst mehrheitlich als gefestigte und einheitliche Persönlichkeiten verstehen. This book presents an empirical study that examines individuals' reasons for specific language practices and investigates the negotiation and performances of hybrid identities within the most intimate community of practice (CofP), the marital unit. The data stem from ethnographic observation over a three-year period as well as recorded conversations with intercultural couples, namely Anglophones married to native German-speaking Swiss, who reside in central Switzerland, where a diglossic situation prevails. This study is placed within an interdisciplinary framework that draws on the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity and the social psychological theory of positioning. The novel approach on which this book focuses is the re-conceptualization of identity by considering participants' emic perspectives since individuals cannot part with the idea of a socially constructed notion of a stable identity despite admitting to engaging in certain socio-cultural practices. The analysis shows how individuals discursively construct their static and dynamic identities. It emphasizes the importance of individuals' explicit identity claims as well as their implicit identity claims illustrating a clear distinction between two types of identities, termed situated and situational. This book argues that participants' views add another level to any sociological, anthropological and linguistic analyses of diasporic individuals. While post-modern definitions of identity are understood as multivalent and interactional sociolinguistic studies view identity as emergent, this study shows that any discussion of identity should not discard the notion of essentialism since individuals more often construct themselves and each other as stable and unitary beings within the context of social interaction.

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Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783050060552
eBook ISBN
9783050064970

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Transcription conventions
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. Data collection and participants
  5. 3. Socio-historical and sociolinguistic background
  6. 4. Identity
  7. 5. Modes of positioning
  8. 6. Language learning in a diglossic area
  9. 7. Doing Swiss and performing hybridity: positioning of self and other and negotiating meaning
  10. 8. Conclusion
  11. 9. Appendices

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