Telling Stories and Making Social Relations

Transnational Women’s Ways of Belonging in Intercultural Contexts

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ID22871007
AuthorsHakyoon Lee (0000-0002-4077-9704, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume36
Issue2
Pages174-193
Publication date2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueApplied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/applin/amt038
OpenAlexW2091399403
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited37

This study investigates how transnational women construct their social relations by telling stories in a lingua franca environment (Firth 1996). My main interest lies in naturally occurring and interactionally achieved stories (Bamberg 2004; Georgakopoulou 2007) told during break time of an adult English as a Second Language (ESL) class in Honolulu. I investigate how seven learners find common ground for belonging by telling stories as a means of active participation. The process of cultural belonging and participation is examined by way of narrative analysis—a concrete, visible, and discursive method for analyzing participants’ daily interactions. By utilizing the dimensions of storytelling, which are embeddedness, tellership, and tellability (Ochs and Capps 2001; Georgakopoulou 2007) I seek to examine how the women construct their social relations and what social actions and goals their stories produce in the interaction. The women locate common concerns and complaints, using their stories to build a familiar, safe, and comfortable environment in which to practice their new lingua franca.

Class (philosophy) · Construct (python library) · Embeddedness · English as a lingua franca · Epistemology · Firth · Intercultural communication · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Narrative · Pedagogy · Social relation · Sociology · Storytelling · Anthropology · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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