Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.15291/gem.4363
On ‘Grammar of Belonging’
Nicoletta Gagliardi
; Universität Salerno
Sažetak
This contribution is based on the first steps of a new interdisciplinary
and multilingual project that analyses interviews with young people
with a migration background in Germany in which they are asked
about their experiences (how they perceive the employment/training
situation, the housing market, the way the authorities deal with
them and the opportunity to meet new people). The project intends to
identify and analyse linguistic phenomena in the interviews, which
will be summarised under the heading “language or grammar of belonging”
(Meinhof/Galasiński 2005), focusing on the ways in which
the language used is involved in the construction and affirmation
of multiple identities that intersect, challenge or complement each
other. In fact, diversity and movement, and moreover overcoming
the boundary between countries, languages and cultures, are particularly
considered in the interviews with young people living the
experience of migration and expressing themselves in a language other
than their mother tongue. By referring to intercultural experiences
and the concepts of intercultural German studies, these texts therefore
represent valid material for interdisciplinary studies that primarily
examine language. First theoretical references can be found
in Wodak et al. (1999). In their studies, they focus their attention on
lexis and syntax in order to extrapolate the construction of “unity,
difference, uniqueness, origin, continuity, change, autonomy, heteronomy”.
Subsequently, De Fina (2003) has focused on the narrative
aspects used to construct identity. However, both Wodak et al.’s and
De Fina’s study lack systematicity and completeness for the study of
identity discourse. In fact, the language used makes use of the whole
spectrum of linguistic devices, so that time, place and person enable
the positioning of the speaker as belonging to a certain group with
which he or she discursively identifies. Therefore, temporal, spatial
and personal references should not be separated from the context
in which they occur. Discourse analysis is oriented towards the text,
which is itself intertextual. Following also Fairclough’s model (1989,
1992), the approach to the text is through lexis, grammar and text
structure.
Keywords:
identity construction,
migration, interactional
sociolinguistics, interviews,
speech analysis, identities
in interaction.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
312049
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.12.2023.
Posjeta: 162 *