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ERIC Number: EJ1045360
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-May
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0167-8507
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"Cooking Lunch, That's Swiss": Constructing Hybrid Identities Based on Socio-Cultural Practices
Gonçalves, Kellie
Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, v32 n4 p527-547 May 2013
This study looks at the discursive construction and negotiation of hybrid identities within binational couples. I analyze conversations produced by Anglophones married to German-speaking Swiss residing in central Switzerland. I employ Bucholtz & Hall's sociocultural linguistic model (2004, 2005, 2010), which views identity as emergent in social interaction and allows for the investigation of identity at various analytical levels. The analysis shows how individuals interactively position themselves as hybrid based on their co-construction of specific socio-cultural practices of everyday life that concern food (preparation, conservation, cooking). By doing so, individuals draw on various linguistic features, including prosodically marked utterances, pronominal use, and overt mentions of national labels, which index their cultural hybrid identities while at the same time exemplifying the performance of hybridity.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Identifiers - Location: Switzerland
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