Chilean Migrants in the Swedish Context from the 1970s until Recently

The Discursive Construction of Their Own Linguistic Trajectories

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ID5900541
AutoresPatricia Baeza-Duffy (0000-0002-1163-1241, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, autor correspondente), Rakel Österberg (0000-0002-6125-4755, Stockholm University)
Ano2021
Volume6
Fascículo2
Páginas95
Data de publicação2021-05-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages6020095
OpenAlexW3164377325
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas41

This study aims to compare the discursive construction of Chilean migrants who arrived in Sweden from the 1970s until recently regarding their own linguistic trajectories at the micro level of social activity, the meso level of sociocultural institutions and communities and the macro level of ideological structures. The analysis of the latter level is based on Critical Discourse Studies, in particular, the strategies of de/legitimisation and the macro strategies of perpetuation or transformation The research questions concern (a) the semiotic resources used in multilingual contexts of action and interaction (at a micro level), (b) expressions of belonging and language identity (at a meso level) (c) and the de/legitimisation of events, processes and social actors in the construction of different ideologies (at a macro level). The method is qualitative and interpretative and is based on critical discourse analysis. The findings showed that the de/legitimisation of policies is associated with access to and acquisition of L2 (Swedish) and maintenance of L1 (Spanish). Well-prepared teachers, the communicative setting of the multicultural language classroom and the linguistic mediators were legitimised, while the process of adaptation and volunteers without sufficient preparation were delegitimised. Societal changes were identified as macro strategies that resulted in the transformation or perpetuation of what was being legitimised or delegitimised

Context (archaeology · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Geography · Identity (music · Ideology · Linguistics · Macro · Macro level · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociocultural perspective · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy