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oapen-20.500.12657-475172021-03-25T01:35:07Z Chapter 2 Constructing Invisibility Kerfoot, Caroline Tatah, Gwendoline discursive interactions; academic identities; social identities; micro-interactional identities; co-construction of micro-interactional identities; ethnicity; race; Cape Town; South Africa; Caroline Kerfoot; Gwendoline Tatah bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as ethnicity and race. The chapter illustrates the disjunctive interplays of visibility and invisibility that characterize the trajectory of a Cameroonian immigrant student, Aline, as she moves through new diasporic and educational spaces in Cape Town. It examines Aline's gradual invisibilization as an indexical process achieved through a set of inter-related semiotic phenomena such as those identified by Bucholtz and Hall: explicit use of identity labels, implicatures and presuppositions regarding identity positions, and evaluative and epistemic stances in relation to ongoing talk. The chapter also analyzes, first, how stances are interdiscursively achieved or disbarred and, second, how the accretion and/or absence of stances over time have longer lasting consequences, helping to construct more durable social categories. 2021-03-24T10:00:49Z 2021-03-24T10:00:49Z 2017 chapter 9781138192263 9780367430313 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47517 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781315640006_oachapter2.pdf Taylor & Francis Entangled Discourses Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9a6f4fdc-2d1e-4d9a-8b25-ea1c6667113e 9781138192263 9780367430313 Routledge 23 open access
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This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as ethnicity and race. The chapter illustrates the disjunctive interplays of visibility and invisibility that characterize the trajectory of a Cameroonian immigrant student, Aline, as she moves through new diasporic and educational spaces in Cape Town. It examines Aline's gradual invisibilization as an indexical process achieved through a set of inter-related semiotic phenomena such as those identified by Bucholtz and Hall: explicit use of identity labels, implicatures and presuppositions regarding identity positions, and evaluative and epistemic stances in relation to ongoing talk. The chapter also analyzes, first, how stances are interdiscursively achieved or disbarred and, second, how the accretion and/or absence of stances over time have longer lasting consequences, helping to construct more durable social categories.
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