Author ORCID Identifier

Djuraeva - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7414-1426

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-17-2020

Journal Title

International Multilingual Research Journal

Volume

14

Issue

3

First Page

270

Last Page

285

Abstract

This study responds to scholarship that has examined “folk concepts” of (non)nativeness through the lens of imagined ideals of the native speaker, by proposing a framework that integrates both ideals and habits. We operationalize these concepts by drawing from the theoretical notions of chronotope, scale, and habitus. Using data from interviews with Central Asian transnational migrants, we demonstrate how attending to both the habitual and idealized aspects of speakers’ metalinguistic commentary offers a more holistic approach to the study of multilingual repertoires and speakers’ social positionings in relationship to (non)nativeness. Our findings demonstrate how identification as a “(non)native” speaker may become more or less important to participants depending on whether they orient to habits or ideals. We also show that speakers’ use of “discourses of habit”, which emphasize their less conscious linguistic behaviors, may lead to a blurring of the lines between nativeness and non-nativeness. This in turn has implications for theories of agency as resistance to linguistic marginalization, and contributes to applied issues related to language education.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Multilingual Research Journal on [January 17, 2020], available online:

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