Habitus and imagined ideals: Attending to (un)consciousness in discourses of (non)nativeness

Djuraeva, Madina; Catedral, Lydia

doi:10.1080/19313152.2020.1714159

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“…There is thus agency involved in the discourses through which speakers engage in scaling, and they may change their scalar perspectives to make claims of belonging, or they may change their practices to fit the scales that become relevant (c.f. Canagarajah & De Costa, 2016; Carr & Lempert, 2016; Djuraeva & Catedral, 2020). At the same time, this agency is always enacted in relation to, and constrained by more enduring scalar hierarchies and dominant norms for what belonging looks like across multiple contexts (c.f.…”

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“…As such, this study brings together multiple views on scale. On the one hand, scaling, or scalar perspective taking, is understood as an agentive process through which speakers position themselves within the larger social imaginary (Canagarajah & De Costa, 2016; Carr & Lempert, 2016; Djuraeva & Catedral, 2020). At the same time, scaling has also taken place at an institutional level over a sustained period of time such that it has led to world systems (Wallerstein, 1983) and corresponding ‘sociolinguistic scales’ that define how speakers are evaluated as they relate to different global, authoritative centers (Blommaert, 2007).…”

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The (im)possibility of sociolinguistic hybridity: Power and scaling in post‐soviet, transnational life

Catedral

2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper contributes to disentangling hybridity from assumptions about marginality, resistance and the dissolution of boundaries in sociolinguistic scholarship. To do so, it examines how speakers make certain types of hybrid identities (im)possible through their discursive practices of scaling. Focusing on post‐soviet, Central Asian migrants in the United States, I demonstrate how their discourses on ethnolinguistic identity rely on multiple scalar perspectives, which (re)make boundaries in different ways that (dis)allow for hybrid identities to emerge. I show that speakers engage in such discourses in order to navigate their marginal transnational positionings, and that their emergent hybrid identities do not ensure resistance to national norms or transcend categorical boundaries. These empirical observations, I argue, have implications for conceptualizing the relationship between power, marginality and hybrid forms more broadly.

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The (im)possibility of sociolinguistic hybridity: Power and scaling in post‐soviet, transnational life

Catedral

2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…Narratives of lived experiences are constructed through invocations of certain times, spaces, and people, which can be discursively reconfigured at any given moment. This reconfiguration can be a matter of scaling, thus it can be ideologically oriented to higher scales of authority (Aydarova, 2016) or lower scales of real‐life experiences (Djuraeva & Catedral, 2020). Blommaert (2007) discusses scalar jumping as a way to communicate what is accepted, normal, or desired in a certain timeframe and within a certain scale.…”

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“…Scholars have applied chronotopes and scales in analyzing people's perceptions of language policy (Flowers, 2016), ethnolinguistic identity (Karimzad & Catedral, 2018), (non)nativeness (Djuraeva & Catedral, 2020), and globalization (Davidson, 2007). Bakhtin (1981) introduced the notion of chronotope as a discursive organization of language based on spatiotemporal categories.…”

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Multilingualism, nation branding, and the ownership of English in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Djuraeva

2021

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This study examines the ownership of English and linguistic (in)security of multilingual English learners in two post‐Soviet nation‐states. Using the chronotopic and scalar analysis of discourse, I examine students’ ideologies of English vis‐à‐vis their linguistic repertoires in the context of national imaginary and globalization. I utilize the concept of ‘nation branding’ to trace the relationship between language ideologies and broader sociopolitical factors, including neoliberalism. The analysis of 60 individual student interviews revealed that the state‐circulated nation‐branding discourse is a powerful tool for instilling the sense of linguistic ownership. The findings showed that students in Uzbekistan regard English as opportunistic and more valuable in the global market than their local languages. In contrast, students in Kazakhstan see all of their languages including English as pivotal in enacting trilingual identity at local, national, and global scales.

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“…In my analysis, I view the multitude of different identity encapsulations across scales as chronotopic (Bakhtin 1981; see also Agha 2007;Blommaert 2015Blommaert , 2017. That is, identities and acts of identification are understood and performed in relation to particular time-space configurations through a process of scaling (see Canagarajah & De Costa 2016;Carr & Lempert 2016;Gal 2016;Catedral 2018;Djuraeva & Catedral 2020). I focus on how participants dynamically scale personhoods and the 2 Language in Society (2022) sociolinguistic behaviors and anxieties associated with them by attaching them to various microscopic and macroscopic chronotopes=timespaces in their discursive acts of identification.…”

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English at the center of the periphery: ‘Chicken nuggets’, chronotopes, and scaling English in Bahraini youth

Al-Alawi

2022

Lang. Soc.

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With the spread of English in Bahrain, ‘chicken nugget’ emerged as a term aimed at English-dominant, typically private-school-educated youth. Drawing on data from Bahraini youth, I show how participants orient to different timespaces as they negotiate their identities relative to the ‘chicken nugget’ figure of personhood. Applying discourse analytic methods to participants’ metacommentaries, I demonstrate how they utilize scaling to elevate this label to a fractally recursive bundle of discursive processes, deeming a wider range of people as chicken nuggets depending on the chronotopic conditions of different timespaces. I further show how speakers evoke different exogenous and endogenous styles of English to allow for complex identification processes: the English of chicken nuggets is excessive and exaggerated, as opposed to English as a necessary communication tool in neoliberal contexts. Thus, this article has implications for our understandings of fractal recursivity, English use in globalized contexts, and the sociolinguistics of identity. (Scales and scaling, chronotope, center-periphery, English/Englishes, authenticity, bilingualism, Bahrain, Arabic)*

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Habitus and imagined ideals: Attending to (un)consciousness in discourses of (non)nativeness

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

The (im)possibility of sociolinguistic hybridity: Power and scaling in post‐soviet, transnational life

The (im)possibility of sociolinguistic hybridity: Power and scaling in post‐soviet, transnational life

Multilingualism, nation branding, and the ownership of English in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

English at the center of the periphery: ‘Chicken nuggets’, chronotopes, and scaling English in Bahraini youth

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