A De Fina
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5169 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A De Fina |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | De Fina |
| ASSINATURA | DE FINA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0007-972X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 486 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
From representation to co-creation
Contemporary migration research increasingly recognises that migration knowledge is not simply documented or represented but collaboratively produced through interactions among researchers, participants and institutions, as well as through the use of diverse semiotic resources. Against this background, our editorial advances a broader epistemological agenda for sociolinguistic approaches to migration, positioning co-creation not as a participator…
Drama, dialogicity and personalization in the circulation of a viral TikTok story
The sharing and retelling of stories plays an important role in the circulation of viral online discourses; yet, there exists relatively little research on online retellings. Drawing on a narrative-as-practice approach ( De Fina, 2021 ), we analyze seven YouTubers’ retellings of a viral TikTok story to demonstrate how these stories are shaped by their embedding within online environments defined by the need to create and maintain participation an…
Multilingualism, digital translingua and linguistic repertoires among migrant youth in virtual communities
Interest in the use of digital resources by migrants is growing in sociolinguistics research, given the central role that digital technologies and social media platforms have in their migration process, in the establishment of communities of belonging, and in the creation and negotiation of identities. However, most sociolinguistic research has focused on digital diasporas and their use of different technologies and spaces. In our paper, we inves…
Bonding with followers
In this study, I apply the notions of chronotopes and scales to analyze how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US politician and activist, constructs a relatable persona in her Instagram stories. I focus on two strategies that she deploys: the mixing of chronotopes associated with different scales of formality/publicness within the same story, and the use of downscaling strategies to reduce the formality of public chronotopes. More specifically, I analy…
Vlogger, storyteller or character? Chronotopic identity shifts and multimodal resources in Covid-19 vlogs
Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics
This special issue responds to an increasing interest in decolonial and Southern thinking in applied linguistics. In this Introduction, we first discuss some basic historical facts about colonization, and we highlight some key concepts. We then present the six contributions in the special issue. Three contributions compellingly expose the pervasiveness of coloniality and give reason to doubt that it can ever be overcome; the other three contribut…
Problematizing cultural difference
In this study we compare 8 American and 8 South Korean vlogs by YouTubers documenting their experiences of COVID in 2020. We propose a nuanced approach to cross-cultural difference that rejects binaries and involves the study of how communicative resources are used by participants in specific events. We detail similarities and differences between the vloggers, from trends in the distribution of topics to use of visual and linguistic resources. Dr…
I especially loved the little Nana dancing on the balcony
In this article I focus on the formation and evaluation of chronotopes in social media. More specifically, I analyze the case of a 'chronotope of the balcony performance' that emerged in Italy in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown. The corpus of the study is constituted by 125 top postings resulting from a Twitter search based on the words Italy, lockdown, and balcony. In line with other scholars (see Goebel 2020), I argue that chronotopes in mass…
Exploring (Im)mobilities
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Stance-taking towards chronotopes as a window into people’s reactions to societal crises
The focus of this article is the analysis of stance taking vis-à-vis a chronotope born during the Covid-19 pandemic as a window into how people react to global crises and into the kinds of values that get an uptake and become widely shared in periods of unrest. I focus on Twitter users’ reactions in relation to a “chronotope of the balcony performances” that developed in Italy during the national lockdown. I analyze the stances that participants …
Chronotopes and the Covid-19 pandemic
In this introduction we discuss the centrality of the management and perception of space-time coordinates during the Covid-19 crisis and highlight some of the main themes that contributors develop in their articles. In particular, we analyze how contributors’ elaborations of the notion of chronotope involve a discussion of fundamental issues such as the conceptualization of context, the relationships of chronotopes with ideologies, the configurat…
Learning How to Tell, Learning How to Ask
In this article, we discuss the discursive processes that surround storytelling of traumatic experiences in the case of minor asylum seekers involved in the recent migration flow to Italian ports. We argue that in order to understand not only how traumatic experiences are told but also how they are overcome, it is necessary to focus on the reciprocal relationships and impact of the members of the communities in which migrants are received. Such a…
Migrant Youth Push Back. Virtual Friendships and Everyday Resistance in the Digital Sphere
Resistance has proven to be a hard concept to define. Debates about resistance in the sociological and sociolinguistic literature cover many aspects: from the degree to which resistance can be seen as related to established social groups (see Rampton 1996), to the level of agentivity and intention that is required for an action to be regarded as resistant, to the type of social behavior that qualifies. Thus, while some see resistance as based on …
Doing narrative analysis from a narratives-as-practices perspective
In this paper I lay out some of the main theoretical methodological principles that underlie a narratives-as-practices approach and discuss three foci that emerge from current research and pave the way for future investigations. In particular, I focus on mobility, connectivity, time/space anchoring and chronotopicity as both characteristics of narrative and research areas which allow for an integration of the focus of interactional approaches on …
Introduction
Odysseus the traveler
Discourse and Identity
This entry presents the main trends in the analysis of identities in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics from three discursive approaches. One studies primarily social identities, a second focuses on personal or biographical identities, and the third pushes for a complication of established identity theories in the face of new developments in technology and the digital world. Main concepts and approaches are introduced as well as recent deve…
What is your dream? Fashioning the migrant self
Afterword
Narrative in the study of migrants
This chapter presents an overview of contributions and future directions for narrative analysis in migration studies looking at different approaches, methodologies, and objects of study within sociolinguistics and other disciplines concerned with discourse in society. It begins with general definitions and considerations of the multiple roles that narratives carry in social life. The chapter discusses two key areas of study: research on identitie…
Online retellings and the viral transformation of a twitter breakup story
The retelling and sharing of stories is not a new phenomenon. Many narrative analysts have devoted research to these processes. But the culture of participation ( Jenkins 2006 ) in the digital world has brought sharing to a completely new level by allowing users not only to broadcast their opinions and evaluations of a story but also to reappropriate it and recontextualize it in infinite recursions. We focus on such process of transformation of a…
The Heart and the Island
With the volume The Heart and the Island, a Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature, Mazzucchelli adds her voice to the debates and reflections about Italian American literature. She challen
Narrative discourse in the construction of Mapuche ethnic identity in context of displacement
This article examines the ways in which narrative discourse contributes to the construction of Mapuche ethnic identities within a context of displacement and investigates how such identities are negotiated in interactional contexts of communication. The larger study comprised 12 focus groups and 36 in-depth semi-structured interviews with members of Mapuche families living in four comunas (neighborhoods) of Santiago, Chile. For this article, the …
Storytelling and audience reactions in social media
Storytelling is among the most common forms of discourse in human communication. The increasing influence of technology in our life is having a significant impact on the types of narrative that are told and on the way they are produced and received. In order to understand such impact we need to approach the discursive study of narrative from a perspective that privileges participant practices rather than texts. This is the approach taken in the p…
The Handbook of Narrative Analysis
Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrativ…
Analysing narratives as practices
Departing from a critique of the conventional paradigm of narrative analysis, inspired by Labov and the narrative turn in social sciences, we propose an alternative framework, recommending combining a focus on the local occasioning of narratives in interaction with the analysis of their participation in a variety of macro-processes, through mobilizing the notions of social practice, genre and community of practice
Narratives in interview — The case of accounts
Narratives told in interview have become a central tool of data collection and analysis in a variety of disciplines within the social sciences. However, many researchers, particularly those who embrace a conversational analytic or ethnomethodological approach (see among others Schegloff, 1997; Goodwin, 1997), regard them as artificial and oppose them to naturally occurring stories, which they see as much richer and interesting sources of data and…
Positioning level 3
In this article I discuss the positive impact of the concept of positioning on identity studies, with particular reference to the analysis of narratives. I argue that the notion of positioning (particularly as developed in Bamberg’s 1997 three levels model), together with other constructs such as indexicality, has helped enormously in bridging the gap (particularly in interview based research) between interactionally-oriented and more traditional…
Introduction
The popularity of interviewing as a method of data collection in the social sciences is a recognized fact. In their survey of qualitative research paradigms and methods, Denzin and Lincoln (2004:353) declare that “the interview is the favorite methodological tool of the qualitative researcher.” And, describing data-collection techniques in sociolinguistics and dialectology, Fuller (2000:388) argues that “much of the data in the field comes from i…
Doing narrative analysis from a narratives-as-practices perspective
In this paper I lay out some of the main theoretical methodological principles that underlie a narratives-as-practices approach and discuss three foci that emerge from current research and pave the way for future investigations. In particular, I focus on mobility, connectivity, time/space anchoring and chronotopicity as both characteristics of narrative and research areas which allow for an integration of the focus of interactional approaches on …
Introduction
The point of departure for this special issue is the recent shift within discourse and sociolinguistic narrative analysis from a long-standing conception of (oral, cf. natural, nonliterary) narrative as a well-defined and delineated genre with an identifiable structure toward the exploration of the multiplicity, fragmentation, and irreducible situatedness of its forms and functions in a wide range of social arenas. We can refer to this shift as a…
Code-switching and the construction of ethnic identity in a community of practice
In the past twenty years the existence of a sense of ethnic belonging among immigrant groups of European ancestry in the United States has become the focus of frequent debates and polemics. This article argues that ethnicity cannot be understood if it is abstracted from concrete social practices, and that analyses of this construct need to be based on ethnographic observation and on the study of actual talk in interaction. This interactionally or…
Crossing borders
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Orientation in Immigrant Narratives
Every year, thousands of undocumented Mexican workers enter the United States. Their presence, together with the settlement of undocumented and legal immigrants from many other countries, constitutes the source of one of the most persistent ideological conflicts in American history: the conflict over immigrants' rights. Official discourses in many cases identify being Hispanic with poor performance at school, drug abuse, poverty and violence. How…
Odysseus the traveler
Researcher and informant roles in narrative interactions
In this article I focus on the influence of researcher/informant roles on the types of narratives that are produced and on the ways in which storytelling interactions are managed in research contexts. In particular, I show that storytelling activities and story types both reflect and shape relationships among participants based, among other factors, on their local management of situational and portable identities. I argue that one important metho…
Introduction
Family interaction and engagement with the heritage language
In this paper I closely examine spontaneous interactions between members of a tri-generation Italian American family. I argue that members show different language preferences and differing attitudes towards the family's multilingual identity but that they all demonstrate a degree of `engagement' with the heritage language. Phenomena that I describe as illustrating engagement are speech accommodation, translations, metalinguistic comments, and att…
Language problem or language conflict? Narratives of immigrant women’s experiences in the US
This article investigates how Latin American women who migrate to the US frame their language experiences through narratives told in sociolinguistic interviews. As narratives reflect and shape social realities and relationships, narrative analysis can illuminate how individuals position themselves relative to language obstacles and ideologies, thus providing insights into processes that are central to the migration experiences of millions of indi…
I especially loved the little Nana dancing on the balcony
In this article I focus on the formation and evaluation of chronotopes in social media. More specifically, I analyze the case of a 'chronotope of the balcony performance' that emerged in Italy in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown. The corpus of the study is constituted by 125 top postings resulting from a Twitter search based on the words Italy, lockdown, and balcony. In line with other scholars (see Goebel 2020), I argue that chronotopes in mass…
Online retellings and the viral transformation of a twitter breakup story
The retelling and sharing of stories is not a new phenomenon. Many narrative analysts have devoted research to these processes. But the culture of participation ( Jenkins 2006 ) in the digital world has brought sharing to a completely new level by allowing users not only to broadcast their opinions and evaluations of a story but also to reappropriate it and recontextualize it in infinite recursions. We focus on such process of transformation of a…
Narrative discourse in the construction of Mapuche ethnic identity in context of displacement
This article examines the ways in which narrative discourse contributes to the construction of Mapuche ethnic identities within a context of displacement and investigates how such identities are negotiated in interactional contexts of communication. The larger study comprised 12 focus groups and 36 in-depth semi-structured interviews with members of Mapuche families living in four comunas (neighborhoods) of Santiago, Chile. For this article, the …
I Am My Language
I Am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands By Norma González. Tucson. The University of Arizona Press. 2001
An analysis of Spanish bien as a marker of classroom management in teacher-student interaction
This paper analyzes the function of the Spanish marker bien in classroom interaction. It is argued that bien has two main functions: a transitional and an evaluative one. Transitional bien is used to signal upcoming transitions between or within activities, while evaluative bien is used to signal a positive response by the teacher in the feedback move of an initiation/response/feedback cycle. Thus, transitional bien is essentially a contextualiza…
Storytelling and audience reactions in social media
Storytelling is among the most common forms of discourse in human communication. The increasing influence of technology in our life is having a significant impact on the types of narrative that are told and on the way they are produced and received. In order to understand such impact we need to approach the discursive study of narrative from a perspective that privileges participant practices rather than texts. This is the approach taken in the p…
Language and identities in US communities of Italian origin
In this article I discuss relationships between language use and identity among Italian Americans. I argue that the study of identities needs to abandon essentialist stances that are particularly common in research on Italian Americans, and approach identity construction as a process that takes place within concrete social practices enacted by specific communities. I provide a brief overview of the linguistic development of Italian Americans in t…
What is your dream? Fashioning the migrant self
Vlogger, storyteller or character? Chronotopic identity shifts and multimodal resources in Covid-19 vlogs
Chronotopes and the Covid-19 pandemic
In this introduction we discuss the centrality of the management and perception of space-time coordinates during the Covid-19 crisis and highlight some of the main themes that contributors develop in their articles. In particular, we analyze how contributors’ elaborations of the notion of chronotope involve a discussion of fundamental issues such as the conceptualization of context, the relationships of chronotopes with ideologies, the configurat…
Bonding with followers
In this study, I apply the notions of chronotopes and scales to analyze how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US politician and activist, constructs a relatable persona in her Instagram stories. I focus on two strategies that she deploys: the mixing of chronotopes associated with different scales of formality/publicness within the same story, and the use of downscaling strategies to reduce the formality of public chronotopes. More specifically, I analy…
The Subtle Slant
An analysis of Spanish bien as a marker of classroom management in teacher-student interaction
This paper analyzes the function of the Spanish marker bien in classroom interaction. It is argued that bien has two main functions: a transitional and an evaluative one. Transitional bien is used to signal upcoming transitions between or within activities, while evaluative bien is used to signal a positive response by the teacher in the feedback move of an initiation/response/feedback cycle. Thus, transitional bien is essentially a contextualiza…
Orientation in Immigrant Narratives
Every year, thousands of undocumented Mexican workers enter the United States. Their presence, together with the settlement of undocumented and legal immigrants from many other countries, constitutes the source of one of the most persistent ideological conflicts in American history: the conflict over immigrants' rights. Official discourses in many cases identify being Hispanic with poor performance at school, drug abuse, poverty and violence. How…
Identity in Narrative
This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the au…
Crossing borders
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The Language of Belonging , Edited by Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Dariusz Galasiński
Discourse and Identity
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a r…
Group identity, narrative and self-representations
Introduction The last decade has seen a growing interdisciplinary interest in the formation, negotiation, and development of identities. This new focus on identity is, at least partially, the product of the intensified contact between different communities brought about in post-modern societies by such social processes as globalization and massive migrations. The multiplication of the occasions for contact with the other has brought with it a pro…
I Am My Language
I Am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands By Norma González. Tucson. The University of Arizona Press. 2001
Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse
The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research. All three share a commitment to view self and identity not as essential properties of the person but as constituted in discursive practices and particula…
Narrative Interaction
Code-switching and the construction of ethnic identity in a community of practice
In the past twenty years the existence of a sense of ethnic belonging among immigrant groups of European ancestry in the United States has become the focus of frequent debates and polemics. This article argues that ethnicity cannot be understood if it is abstracted from concrete social practices, and that analyses of this construct need to be based on ethnographic observation and on the study of actual talk in interaction. This interactionally or…
Who tells which story and why? Micro and macro contexts in narrative
This article focuses on the inter-relations between storytelling and micro and macro contexts. It explores how narrative activity is shaped by and shapes in unique ways the local context of interaction in a community of practice, an Italian American card-playing club, but also illustrates how the storytelling events that take place within this local community relate to wider social processes. The analysis centers on a number of topically linked n…
Introduction
The point of departure for this special issue is the recent shift within discourse and sociolinguistic narrative analysis from a long-standing conception of (oral, cf. natural, nonliterary) narrative as a well-defined and delineated genre with an identifiable structure toward the exploration of the multiplicity, fragmentation, and irreducible situatedness of its forms and functions in a wide range of social arenas. We can refer to this shift as a…
Analysing narratives as practices
Departing from a critique of the conventional paradigm of narrative analysis, inspired by Labov and the narrative turn in social sciences, we propose an alternative framework, recommending combining a focus on the local occasioning of narratives in interaction with the analysis of their participation in a variety of macro-processes, through mobilizing the notions of social practice, genre and community of practice
Narratives in interview — The case of accounts
Narratives told in interview have become a central tool of data collection and analysis in a variety of disciplines within the social sciences. However, many researchers, particularly those who embrace a conversational analytic or ethnomethodological approach (see among others Schegloff, 1997; Goodwin, 1997), regard them as artificial and oppose them to naturally occurring stories, which they see as much richer and interesting sources of data and…
Language Policy and Latina Immigrants
This article examines how Spanish-speaking Latina (im)migrants position themselves relative to US language policies. Drawing from interviews with 15 Latin American women in the USA, we illustrate how understandings of language policy are constructed through individuals’ reports of everyday experiences and framed within the constraints of contemporary language politics and ideological debates. Building on recent shifts in language policy research …
Analyzing Narrative
The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range…
Discourse and Identity Construction
Beyond Narrative Coherence (review)
Reviewed by: Beyond Narrative Coherence Anna De Fina (bio) Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo, and Maria Tamboukou, eds. Beyond Narrative Coherence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Studies in Narrative, 196 pp. ISBN 978-9027226518, $135.00. In the introduction to this volume, the editors present the unifying theme of the book: the articulation of a perspective on narrative that far from identifying coherence as a main characterist…
Gli italiani e l'italiano nell'America del Nord
Introduction
The popularity of interviewing as a method of data collection in the social sciences is a recognized fact. In their survey of qualitative research paradigms and methods, Denzin and Lincoln (2004:353) declare that “the interview is the favorite methodological tool of the qualitative researcher.” And, describing data-collection techniques in sociolinguistics and dialectology, Fuller (2000:388) argues that “much of the data in the field comes from i…
Language problem or language conflict? Narratives of immigrant women’s experiences in the US
This article investigates how Latin American women who migrate to the US frame their language experiences through narratives told in sociolinguistic interviews. As narratives reflect and shape social realities and relationships, narrative analysis can illuminate how individuals position themselves relative to language obstacles and ideologies, thus providing insights into processes that are central to the migration experiences of millions of indi…
Researcher and informant roles in narrative interactions
In this article I focus on the influence of researcher/informant roles on the types of narratives that are produced and on the ways in which storytelling interactions are managed in research contexts. In particular, I show that storytelling activities and story types both reflect and shape relationships among participants based, among other factors, on their local management of situational and portable identities. I argue that one important metho…
Immigrant Discourse
Before introducing the topic of this entry, it needs to be clarifi ed that the term discourse is employed here to refer to language in use as organized and culturally shaped ways of talking embedded in concrete social practices (see Gee, 1996, p. 131, on this point).
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