We are going to our Portuguese homeland

French Luso-descendants’ diasporic Facebook conarrations of vacation return trips to Portugal

Bibliographic Data

ID5779617
AuthorsIsabelle Simões Marques (0000-0002-3155-3762, Universidade Aberta), M Koven (0000-0002-7060-7874, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Year2017
Volume27
Issue2
Pages286-310
Publication date2017-06-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNarrative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1387-6740 • E-ISSN: 1569-9935
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ni.27.2.05sim
OpenAlexW2729000066
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited59

This article combines the study of online narratives as social practices and the linguistic anthropological study of imagined communities, to examine a set of non-canonical narrative practices in a Facebook group for the Portuguese diaspora in France. Instead of reports of individual members' past experiences, these narratives function as invitations to other group members to co-tell typical , shared experiences. Specifically, we investigate how group members share vacation trips to Portugal with each other in ways that produce a sense of collective and simultaneous experience. They accomplish this through deictically-based narrative strategies that shift the social, spatial, and temporal perspectives of narrating and narrated frames in ways that link the following: individual I's with collective we's , one-time events with timeless event types, and co-presence online with co-presence on vacation. Through these strategies, participants connect Facebook narrations of vacations to the larger social project of diasporic longing for and return to Portugal

Diaspora · Homeland · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Multilingual Education and Policy

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