Using Silence to "Pass": Embodiment and Interactional Categorization in a Diasporic Context

Autor/in	Wagner, Lauren
Titel	Using Silence to "Pass": Embodiment and Interactional Categorization in a Diasporic Context
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 34 (2015) 5, S.659-686 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Language Usage; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Migration; Correlation; Classification; Nonverbal Communication; Semitic Languages; Afro Asiatic Languages; French; Multilingualism; Communication Strategies; Code Switching (Language); Sociolinguistics; Interviews; Purchasing; Morocco + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Korrelation; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Französisch; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Kommunikationsstrategie; Soziolinguistik; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beschaffungswesen; Kauf; Marokko
Abstract	This article posits that "passing" is a manipulation of ambiguously embodied characteristics, linguistic practice, and ratification by other speakers. I explore discourses and practices of "passing" by post-migrant generation, diasporically-resident Moroccans who seek to be unmarked by migration when bargaining in Moroccan markets. Their attempts have many possibilities for failure, including any way that their diasporic provenance might be made relevant in interaction through their embodied and linguistic practices. This connection between embodiment and linguistic practices becomes more evident in a unique case of bargaining "success", which depends on using silence. Framed by all the possible ways to fail, the main interactional example is exceptional because of its success-by-not-failing: the diasporically-resident participant was not conversationally, explicitly marked as "diasporic". (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01