Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals' verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese

Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals' verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese Date: 2007
Pages: 342
Format: PDF
Size: 5,3 MB

This book explores bilinguals’ experiences and expressions of identity in multicultural, multilingual contexts. It is distinctive in its integration of multiple levels of analysis to address the relationships between language and identity. Koven links detailed attention to discourse form, to participants’ multiple interpretations how such forms become signs of identity, and to the broader macrosociolinguistic contexts that structure participants’ access to those signs. The study of how bilinguals perform and experience different identities in their two languages sheds light on the more general role of linguistic and cultural forms in local experiences and expressions of identity.

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