Maheux-Pelletier2011
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Maheux-Pelletier2011 |
| Author(s) | Geneviéve Maheux-Pelletier |
| Title | Repair as a conversational resource for (dis)affiliation in the negotiation of linguistic identity |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Membership Categorization Analysis, Conversation Analysis, French, Repair, Affiliation, Identity |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Journal | Nottingham French Studies |
| Volume | 50 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 134–153 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.3366/nfs.2011-2.007 |
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Abstract
This article focuses on the negotiation of membership to and the linguistic boundaries of a minority French-Canadian community. It analyses the expression of linguistic identity as a situated accomplishment by means of interactional resources, and of repair in particular. In each excerpt, repair is used by the co-participants to manage affiliative or disaffiliative stances towards their own and others 'linguistic categories and identities. In doing so, they engage in categorisations along many dimensions of linguistic identities: 1) the ill-defined boundaries of 'francophonie', 2) the dividing lines between French and English, and 3) claimed access to the vernacular and the linguistic competence it entails. The data analysis reveals the malleable and negotiable nature of identity; it also underlines the role of conversational and linguistic resources for articulating a sense of self around social constructs such as Francophone, Anglophone, bilingual speaker, language learner, and competent speaker of French.
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