Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies
This paper demonstrates how multilingual adolescents initiate language-directed teasing in family interaction and thus contribute to reinforcing or challenging social hierarchies and norms in the family. It investigates the case of a multilingual family living in Northern Norway (two parents and fiv...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/20253 2023-05-15T17:43:29+02:00 Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies Johnsen, Ragni Vik 2020-01-17 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20253 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.012 eng eng Elsevier Johnsen, R.V. (2021). Flerspråklig ungdom og familien: Språklige praksiser, aktørskap og identiteter. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20543 . Journal of Pragmatics Johnsen RV. Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies. Journal of Pragmatics. 2020;158:1-12 FRIDAID 1803843 doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.012 0378-2166 1879-1387 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20253 openAccess Copyright 2020 The Author(s) VDP::Humanities: 000::Cultural science: 060 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kulturvitenskap: 060 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2020 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.012 2021-06-25T17:57:58Z This paper demonstrates how multilingual adolescents initiate language-directed teasing in family interaction and thus contribute to reinforcing or challenging social hierarchies and norms in the family. It investigates the case of a multilingual family living in Northern Norway (two parents and five children ranging from 3 to 18 years old). To a varying extent, and with varying degrees of competence, all family members use three languages in their daily lives: English, Spanish, and Norwegian. The data consists of self-recorded material of family interactions (9 h; 549 min) that were collected over the course of one year. A close interactional analysis shows how the siblings target linguistic production in teasing attacks, and use language-directed teasing as an interactional resource to position themselves and their family members. Drawing on Billig's (2005) theory of disciplinary humor, the article argues that playful corrections of perceived norm transgressions may be understood as situated (re)production and negotiation of social and linguistic norms, through which the young family members participate in the construction of the family as a community of practice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway Journal of Pragmatics 158 1 12 |
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This paper demonstrates how multilingual adolescents initiate language-directed teasing in family interaction and thus contribute to reinforcing or challenging social hierarchies and norms in the family. It investigates the case of a multilingual family living in Northern Norway (two parents and five children ranging from 3 to 18 years old). To a varying extent, and with varying degrees of competence, all family members use three languages in their daily lives: English, Spanish, and Norwegian. The data consists of self-recorded material of family interactions (9 h; 549 min) that were collected over the course of one year. A close interactional analysis shows how the siblings target linguistic production in teasing attacks, and use language-directed teasing as an interactional resource to position themselves and their family members. Drawing on Billig's (2005) theory of disciplinary humor, the article argues that playful corrections of perceived norm transgressions may be understood as situated (re)production and negotiation of social and linguistic norms, through which the young family members participate in the construction of the family as a community of practice. |
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Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies |
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Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies |
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Johnsen, R.V. (2021). Flerspråklig ungdom og familien: Språklige praksiser, aktørskap og identiteter. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20543 . Journal of Pragmatics Johnsen RV. Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies. Journal of Pragmatics. 2020;158:1-12 FRIDAID 1803843 doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.012 0378-2166 1879-1387 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20253 |
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