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Translinguando espaço? Discursos metalinguísticos de jovens moçambicanos sobre ‘languaging’
Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8079-5197
2016 (Portuguese)In: Domínios de Lingu@gem, ISSN 1980-5799, Vol. 10, no 4, p. 1278-1301Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Translanguaging space? Mozambican Youth´s metalinguistic discourse on languaging

This study explores languaging practices among plurilingual Mozambican youth based on metalinguistic discourse and considering changes in the linguistic ecology fueled by the expansion of Portuguese and other social processes in Mozambique during post-independence. Additionally, this paper discusses the hypothesis of transforming languaging practices among plurilingual youth, which through a translanguaging lens can be seen as translanguaging space (GARCÍA; WEI, 2014; WEI, 2011). The approach is multimethodological and consists of autobiographic interviews, observations and metalinguistic discourse including audio and video material. The nine participants come from two different provinces in Mozambique: Nampula and Maputo. The results confirm the emergence of new languaging practices which the youth prefer and use in communication with peers. The creativity and criticality highlighted by Wei as key elements of translanguaging space (WEI, 2011) are observed and regarded as space construction (LEFEBVRE, 1991), or revindication of space(s) and, among other things, the historical and cultural hegemonic positioning of the monoglossic ideology of Portuguese in institutional spaces.

Abstract [pt]

O presente estudo explora as práticas de languaging entre jovens moçambicanos plurilíngues com base em discursos de metalinguagem e à luz das mudanças na ecologia linguística trazidas pela expansão da língua portuguesa e outros processos sociais em Moçambique no período pós-independência. Defende, para além disso, a hipótese de que as práticas de languagingentre jovens plurilíngues se têm transformado e que essas práticas podem ser vistas na perspectiva de translanguaging e comotranslanguaging space (GARCÍA; WEI, 2014; WEI, 2011). A abordagem é multimetodológica e baseia-se em entrevistas autobiográficas, observação e discursos metalinguísticos; e inclui materiais áudio e vídeo. Os nove participantes provêm de duas províncias diferentes de Moçambique: Nampula e Maputo. Os resultados confirmam a emergência de novas práticas de languagingque os jovens preferem e usam na comunicação entre pares. A criatividade e o espírito crítico salientados por Wei como elementos chave das práticas detranslanguaging space (WEI, 2011) verificam-se e são vistos como construção de espaço (LEFEBVRE, 1991); ou reivindicação do(s) espaço(s) e, entre outros, do posicionamento histórico e cultural hegemônico da ideologia monoglóssica do Português nos espaços institucionais.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. Vol. 10, no 4, p. 1278-1301
Keywords [en]
Multilingualism, Youth Languaging, Translanguaging space, Decolonization, Mozambique
Keywords [pt]
Multilinguismo, Languaging de jovens, Translinguando espaço, Descolonização, Moçambique
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Languages and Literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-37515DOI: 10.14393/DL27-v10n4a2016-5OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-37515DiVA, id: diva2:1572159
Available from: 2021-06-23 Created: 2021-06-23 Last updated: 2021-06-23
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1. Discursos fronteiriços de jovens moçambicanos: A linguagem, as ideologias e as subjetividades na colonialidade contemporânea
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Discursos fronteiriços de jovens moçambicanos: A linguagem, as ideologias e as subjetividades na colonialidade contemporânea
2019 (Portuguese)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
Discursive re(b)ordering of Young Mozambicans : Language, ideologies and subjectivities in contemporary coloniality
Abstract [en]

Why are we talking about coloniality in postcolonial times? And what does language have to do with it? In addressing these two broad questions, this thesis sets out to provide empirically well-grounded reflections focusing: First, on how young Mozambicans’ linguistic repertoires and discursive practices relate to their sense of being in the world. And second, on how their perceptions resonate with recent sociolinguistic debates about the different roles language and ideologies play in constructing and reproducing conditions of contemporary coloniality. The role of postcolonial Portuguese is particularly highlighted. The introduction provides a critical, decolonial and epistemic reflexion that brings together four seemingly disparate studies. Moreover, it offers an invitation to critically reflect on discourses, ideologies and valuations that are carried in and on our individual and collective historical bodies and minds and are reproduced through different manifestations of what I call ‘discursive re(b)orderings’. Study I, explores how Portuguese spoken in Maputo has changed after independence and underpins the inquiry into the ‘construct’ of linguistic boundaries and its relation to ideas of language purity and how these ideologically laden notions impact knowledge production and perceived and lived mobilities in the ‘postcolony’. Study II, displays ‘languaging’ practices of young Mozambicans and their strategic orientations in their social-spatial deployment of linguistic resources, and explores ‘translanguaging’ as discursive space production. Study III, brings Frantz Fanon into the study of sociolinguistics of subjectivity and explores the reflexes of the ‘other’ in the constitution of the self of young Mozambicans, suggesting that intersubjectivity holds the promise of disentangling Fanon´s notion of ‘sociogenese’. Study IV brings Pierre Bourdieu´s Distinction (1984) into the ‘postcolony’ by emulating his methodology through multilevel big picture data, combining quantitative and qualitative data and analyses with approaches inspired by ethnography to look at ‘positions and dispositions’ of young Mozambicans across fields and markets. Theoretically, the thesis brings Bourdieu and Fanon together, and shows how nexus concepts, intersubjectivity and the historical bodies and minds represent promising avenues to the understanding of language in coloniality. Two nexus concepts, the habitus and the sociogenese, are adopted and complement each other. By mixing methodologies, the studies combined, manage to capture the complexities in the multi-layered and often subtle ways discursive bordering constructs and reproduces contemporary coloniality. Empirically, taken together, the four studies show how ideologies, the ‘constructs’ surrounding language and the symbolic value of Portuguese are taken up in language and discourses and in speakers’ strategic deployment of linguistic resources across fields and marketplaces in the ‘postcolony’. Moreover, it shows how all forms of capital: epistemic, economic, educational, linguistic and symbolic are reconfigured and revaluated. Nevertheless, mobility is contained, and socioeconomic inequalities are mirrored in sociolinguistic inequalities and even in material urban space to the effect of perpetuating conditions of contemporary coloniality.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University, 2019
Keywords
decoloniality, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Bourdieu, sociogenese, intersubjectivity, epistemic reflexivity, contemporary coloniality, nexus concepts, Mozambique, Portuguese, postcolony, symbolic value, habitus, linguistic repertories, forms of capital, knowledge production
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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urn:nbn:se:du-37510 (URN)978-91-7797-670-7 (ISBN)978-91-7797-671-4 (ISBN)
Public defence
2019-05-06, Ahlmannsalen, Geovetenskapens hus, Svante Arrhenius väg 12, 10:00 (Portuguese)
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.

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