New orientations to identities in mobility

Locating place in variationist sociolinguistics: Making the case for ethnographically informed multidimensional place orientation metrics

“…Considerations of place as a multifaceted and contested social construct can also inform research on ethnicity and nationality in an increasingly globalized world (Hoffman & Walker, 2010;Newlin-Łukowicz, 2015;Hua, 2017;Tseng & Hinrichs, 2021) and open up inquiries about mobile populations in second dialect acquisition research (Nycz, 2018(Nycz, , 2019. And, crucially, as sociolinguists expand on our intersectional considerations of race, gender, sexuality, and social class, examining the ways that different crosssections of society interact with-and position themselves with respect to-the places they live will make our analyses more informed, more nuanced, and more accurate.…”

“…Consideration of movement across national borders, multilingual contexts, and refugee experiences will be essential to our linguistic theories moving forward, because these are the realities of our globalized world, which at any given time is experiencing political upheaval, climate crises, and other large-scale motivations for migration, and for shifting allegiances to the place(s) one calls home (see Tseng & Hinrichs, 2021). And dedicating attention to place identity and place orientation is not simply relevant to transnational examinations (e.g., de Fina & Perrino, 2013;Hua, 2017) but informs any examination of speakers who live in places. Lastly, as we increasingly devote energy to considering the intersection of identity factors, we must consider the ways that linguistic performance of gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, and so on are always necessarily emplaced.…”

When Immigrant Mothers of Color Become Public School Teachers for English Language Learners: Intersectionality for Transformative Teacher Preparation

“…As far as how intersectionality and transformative perspective was investigated in TESOL and applied linguistics, scholars explored these two terms both theoretically (Liggett, 2014; Zhu, 2017) and empirically (Lawrence & Nagashima, 2020; Senyshyn, 2018). For instance, Liggett (2014) examined intersectionality by referring to “language and race to better understand linguicism and the historical context that frames discourse around English language education, and how this context overlaps with race, racial identity, and racialization” (p. 122).…”

“…For instance, Liggett (2014) examined intersectionality by referring to “language and race to better understand linguicism and the historical context that frames discourse around English language education, and how this context overlaps with race, racial identity, and racialization” (p. 122). Similarly, Hua (2017) explored the pluralistic conceptualization of identities and underscored the importance of highlighting the transformative aspects of intersectionality in situated contexts (p. 13–14). Empirical studies such as Lawrence and Nagashima (2020), Senyshyn (2018), Miller, Liu, and Ball (2020), together with others (Fairley, 2020; Ubaque‐Casallas, 2021) purported the need to further explore the application of a transformative lens in TESOL and applied linguistics.…”

Transnational Self and Community in the Talk of Russophone Cultural Leaders in the UK

“…As in the case of diaspora, language and discourse are the means through which transnational identity is constructed, performed and negotiated (Hall and Du Gay 1996;Benwell and Stokoe 2006;De Fina 2011De Fina et al 2006;Wodak 2012;Wodak et al 2009;Wodak and Boukala 2015). The notion of hybridity has been developed to describe the complexity of diasporic identities, a sense of double belonging and a hyphenated fusion of national, cultural and linguistic features in the content of identity production (Bhabha 1994;Dervin and Risager 2015;Zhu Hua 2017). Russian-speaking population and is the major hub of Russophone cultural activity.…”