‘I’m sure at some point we’ll be switching’: planning and enacting an interview language policy with multilingual participants

Rolland, Louise

doi:10.1080/01434632.2023.2199000

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

2023

DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2023.2199000

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‘I’m sure at some point we’ll be switching’: planning and enacting an interview language policy with multilingual participants

Louise Rolland

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In a world of increasing linguistic diversity, questions of language use and language ideologies in research interviews are gaining increasing importance. This article reports and reflects on language use in research interviews with former refugees in New Zealand and Sweden. In the interviews, multilingual speakers had the option to engage in the host language (English or Swedish, respectively), to bring their own language support person, or to request a professional interpreter. The article suggests that providing these options enabled participants to engage a greater range of linguistic and multimodal resources to create meaning and construct their identities, and also provided opportunities for language learning in the interviews. The article also highlights the importance of acknowledging the role of interpreters in the co‐construction of meaning and what this means for data collection and findings.

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Co-constructing meaning through semi-understanding: conducting the sociolinguistic interview in an (un)known language

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In my research I examine the linguistic practices of Moroccans in Spain, many of whom speak Moroccan Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish at varying levels of proficiency. As part of my research, I conducted a 10-month linguistic ethnography. I was able to rely on my native English and near-native Spanish language skills for my research, but it was also necessary to use Modern Standard Arabic and even Moroccan Arabic in my sociolinguistic nterviews. I possess limited working knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic and even more limited knowledge of Moroccan Arabic. In this paper, I discuss one instance of conducting a sociolinguistic interview in Moroccan Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. I conduct a discursive analysis of the interactional positioning and linguistic resources in this 46-min interview based on a perspective of “spaces of linguistic non-understanding.” I show how spaces of “linguistic semi-understanding” arise in the sociolinguistic interview which require the researcher to move beyond the genre of the interview. I also demonstrate how these spaces are intertwined with negotiations of social and cultural knowledge. Lastly, I highlight the challenges and opportunities afforded to researchers who work in communities and languages outside of their own.

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‘I’m sure at some point we’ll be switching’: planning and enacting an interview language policy with multilingual participants

Cited by 3 publications

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An Overview of Data Collection in Health Preference Research

An Overview of Data Collection in Health Preference Research

Language dynamics and agency in multilingual research interviews

Co-constructing meaning through semi-understanding: conducting the sociolinguistic interview in an (un)known language

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