Event overview
This talk will revisit the concept of the third space and the unhomely by highlighting the tangible, material and ordinary aspects of the intercultural encounter. I do this by focusing on the points of recognition that language learners live in their biographies. A frame of analysis based on the sociolinguistic concepts of ‘Chronotope’ (Woolard 2013) and ‘Mudes’ (Pujolar and Gonzalez 2012) which place languagers’ spatio-temporal trajectories in synchronicity with their life-itineraries will be used. The analysis of five language learners’ narratives and ‘critical moments’ will pinpoint the moments in which belongings and identities to a particular culture are shifted through the socializing in the new language. These moments will also be seen as indexes of the transformative yet reversible nature of the multilingual experience when it is interpreted as located and acted out in an ordinary event. I will conclude that such reading of languagers’ third spaces help us to see multilingual identities as dynamic, multiple processes of becoming rather than just static, symbolic and transcendental versions of a culture and the intercultural.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 May 2018 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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