Book ? ?The Consequences of Mobility : Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones?

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Unpack the profound effects of human mobility on language and society. Discover how linguistic and sociocultural contact zones redefine communication and cultural identities.

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?Zwei languages zusammenputten?1: Bilingual ways of expressing bicultural identities

The availability of linguistic resources plays a crucial role when sociocultural identities are constructed in interpersonal interaction. When looking at ways of how language is used to fulfil this purpose, the behaviour of bilinguals is particularl...

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Figuring the transnational ?Child-to-be-adopted?: The web as a virtual sociocultural contact zone for intercountry adoption

This paper presents our research which is part of a larger project that explores how to track and understand the linguistic, discursive and sociocultural contact zones or networks brought about by intercountry adoption. Using mediated discourse anal...

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Narratives in talk-in-interaction: organization and construction of cultural identities

This paper takes its point of departure in material which was established as part of the European research project INES, International Negotiations in Spanish: linguistic and cultural issues, in which researchers participated from the business schoo...

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Footing and identity in interaction at a conversation club

Taking Goffman?s concepts of footing and production format as a foundation, this study analyzes instances of interaction among native and non-native speakers of English in a conversation club at a language school. Following examples of how the produ...

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Reconstructing NS/NNS communication

The study of miscommunication between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) is a recent one, derived mainly from the literature on miscommunication between native speakers, borrowing its terminology and paradigms. Most of the studies fo...