Lifestyle residents in Barcelona
A Biographical Perspective on Linguistic Repertoires, Identity Narrative and Transnational Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Codó (0000-0002-0884-6807, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue | 250 |
| Pages | 11-34 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2017-0053 |
| OpenAlex | W2790202294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
The popularization of lifestyle migration epitomizes the individualization of contemporary lives, and the centrality of travel and spatial relocation in people's aspirational or real life projects. This article examines the processes of sociolinguistic relocation of "lifestylers" in the polylingual city of Barcelona through the lens of their embracing or rejection of Catalan, the non-state, local co-official language. It aims to decipher to what extent these individuals see Catalan as relevant to their transnational life experiences, and how this relevance is embedded in their relational-emotional experiences and evolving sense of self. This article, which examines two life stories gathered through ethnographic interviewing, is framed within biographical-experiential approaches to the multilingual repertoire. The analysis shows that by assembling different narrative bits and by examining in detail the small stories informants tell to ground their accounts, a complex picture of language (dis)appropriation emerges. It argues that national identity rhetoric is a discursive strategy deployed by narrators to partly make sense and partly rationalize what is a complex bundle of identity (re)constitution reasons, emotional stances and interpersonal power dynamics. The article concludes by arguing that presences or absences in people's repertoire are embodied struggles for personal coherence
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Repertoire · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |