36.416, Books: Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual Couples: Pahom (2024)

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Date: 01-Feb-2025
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual Couples: Pahom (2024)


Title: Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual
Couples
Subtitle: Gender Roles and Language Choices
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/conversational-storytelling-in-spanishenglish-bilingual-couples-9781350405134/

Author(s): Olga Pahom

Hardback: 9781350405134 Price: £95.00

Abstract:

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married
someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic
background has been on the rise in the United States, but the
communication practices of such couples have remained understudied.
Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis,
this book explores and describes the storytelling practices and
language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English
bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each from different
geographic and cultural backgrounds.
Based on more than 900 minutes of conversations and interviews, the
book offers a data-driven analysis of the ways in which language
choices and gender performance shape the stories, conversations, and
identities of bilingual couples, which in turn shape the social order
of bilingual communities. Using a combination of methodologies to
investigate how couples launch, tell, and respond to each other's
stories, the book identifies seven main factors that the couples see
as primary determinants of their choice of English and Spanish during
couple communication. The use of conversation analysis highlights the
couples' own practices and perceptions of their language choices,
demonstrating how the private language decisions of bilingual couples
enable them to negotiate a place in the larger culture, shape the
future of bilingualism, and establish a couple identity through shared
linguistic and cultural habits.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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