Non-normative identities in intercultural talk

• Autores: Agnieszka Nowicka
• Localización: Languaging experiences: Learning and teaching revisited / coord. por Hadrian Lankiewicz, Emilia Wasikiewicz-Firlej, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4438-5341-5, págs. 116-129
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The languaging perspective and ethnomethodology share the same assumption that language in communication is indexical. Communicative actions are contextualised in social practice and their meaning should be defined in macro-social, cultural contexts. In addition, from the ethnomethodological perspective, the meaning of a communicative action should be determined as conditionally relevant from the emic perspective of talk participants in contingent, micro-sequences of talk-in-interaction.

    In intercultural communication in English as a linguafranca, the talk participants ' understanding of such macro-social categories as cultural, ethnic or racial identities as normative or non-normative, preferred or dispreferred should be observed as a situated practice, in the microcontext of social interaction. The social categorisation performed by talk participants can be based both on their native culture and language as well as on relatively universal communicative rules and norms of social order, which are shared in the global discourse of English as a lingua franca. Communication in lingua franca seems to be based to a great extent on the norms shared in the communicative culture of English as a lingua franca. As my research indicates the development of communicative competence in this kind of communication calls for developing the ability to negotiate problematic rules, norms and such categories of macro-social order as social identities.

    The chapter aims to discuss how the ethnic categorisations that would be understood as non-normative in endolingual talk are negotiated in intercultural communication in English as a linguafranca as dispreferred categorisations. The discussion is based on the analysis of an interview coming from the corpus of interactions analysed within my research project on ethnic and racial categorisations in intercultural talk. The interview is analysed using ethnomethodological membership categorisation analysis.