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dc.contributor.authorDivita, David
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-04T06:55:33Z
dc.date.available2011-07-04T06:55:33Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationDivita, D. (2011). Objects as artifacts: synchronic convergence in multilingual contexts. Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies Vol. 5, 1 , p. 13–26
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/27265
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I propose a shift in analytic focus from language to artifacts – that is, to personally meaningful objects that surface in interaction and generate talk – as a means of accounting for the historical dimension of the relationship between form and meaning. Artifacts activate memories and feelings from other times and places, informing ways of speaking in the conversational here-and-now. By applying discourse analysis to a conversation recorded during fieldwork at a social center for Spanish senior citizens in Paris, I show how various timescales – that is, the microgenetic scale of unfolding talk, the “series of connected discourse events” over weeks, months or even years, and the ontogenetic scale of individuals’ lives (Larsen-Freeman and Cameron 2008: 169) – converge in a single interaction. Such timescales inform not only the social meanings (the identities, stances, alignments) that individuals create, but also the linguistic resources they use to do so.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCentre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä
dc.relation.ispartofseriesApples - Journal of Applied Language Studies
dc.relation.urihttp://apples.jyu.fi
dc.subject.othermultilingualismen
dc.subject.otherdiscourseen
dc.subject.othertimescalesen
dc.subject.otherartifactsen
dc.titleObjects as artifacts: synchronic convergence in multilingual contextsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-2011070411110
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn1457-9863
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