Chapter 2 Constructing Invisibility
This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as...
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| description | This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as ethnicity and race. The chapter illustrates the disjunctive interplays of visibility and invisibility that characterize the trajectory of a Cameroonian immigrant student, Aline, as she moves through new diasporic and educational spaces in Cape Town. It examines Aline's gradual invisibilization as an indexical process achieved through a set of inter-related semiotic phenomena such as those identified by Bucholtz and Hall: explicit use of identity labels, implicatures and presuppositions regarding identity positions, and evaluative and epistemic stances in relation to ongoing talk. The chapter also analyzes, first, how stances are interdiscursively achieved or disbarred and, second, how the accretion and/or absence of stances over time have longer lasting consequences, helping to construct more durable social categories. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-642182025-03-04T09:47:58Z Chapter 2 Constructing Invisibility Kerfoot, Caroline Tatah, Gwendoline discursive interactions; academic identities; social identities; micro-interactional identities; co-construction of micro-interactional identities; ethnicity; race; Cape Town; South Africa; Caroline Kerfoot; Gwendoline Tatah thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as ethnicity and race. The chapter illustrates the disjunctive interplays of visibility and invisibility that characterize the trajectory of a Cameroonian immigrant student, Aline, as she moves through new diasporic and educational spaces in Cape Town. It examines Aline's gradual invisibilization as an indexical process achieved through a set of inter-related semiotic phenomena such as those identified by Bucholtz and Hall: explicit use of identity labels, implicatures and presuppositions regarding identity positions, and evaluative and epistemic stances in relation to ongoing talk. The chapter also analyzes, first, how stances are interdiscursively achieved or disbarred and, second, how the accretion and/or absence of stances over time have longer lasting consequences, helping to construct more durable social categories. 2021-03-25T03:01:42Z 2021-03-25T03:01:42Z 2021-03-24T10:00:49Z 2017 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47517 9781138192263 9780367430313 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64218 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47517/1/9781315640006_oachapter2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47517/1/9781315640006_oachapter2.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Entangled Discourses 9781138192263 9780367430313 Routledge 23 open access |
| spellingShingle | discursive interactions; academic identities; social identities; micro-interactional identities; co-construction of micro-interactional identities; ethnicity; race; Cape Town; South Africa; Caroline Kerfoot; Gwendoline Tatah thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general Kerfoot, Caroline Tatah, Gwendoline Chapter 2 Constructing Invisibility |
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