Simpson, J. and Bradley, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4232-1983 (2024) Belonging-in-interaction: expressing and performing translocal belongings through language and arts practice. Applied Linguistics, 45 (3). pp. 464-480. ISSN 0142-6001
Abstract
This paper explores belonging, in a context of mobility. For newcomers to a country, their belongings are multiple and uncertain, as they retain links with the place they have left while attempting to attain legitimacy as members of the new society. We ask how recent migrants to the UK who are adult migrant language learners express and perform their understandings of belonging in a participatory arts project. In so doing, we uncover how the participants’ belongings, as they emerge in interaction, both shape and are shaped during the phases of co-production. We take into account the range of communicative resources including but also beyond language, deployed trans-semiotically in participatory arts practice. This trans-orientation allows insights into the interactive character of belonging in the process of preparing the arts performance that might otherwise go unnoticed. We conclude that our perspective on belonging-in-interaction presents a challenge to dominant discourses relating to social integration for new arrivals, where a narrow focus on the learning and use of the main societal language is a prerequisite for belonging.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Applied Linguistics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | belonging; migration; mobility; translanguaging; creative practice; ESOL |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2023 12:58 |
Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 14:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/applin/amad041 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200531 |
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