Metapragmatics of normalcy: Mobility, context, and language choice

Publication date: Available online 8 March 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Farzad KarimzadAbstractDrawing on data from Iranian Azerbaijani migrants, I propose the notion of chronotopization to understand how perceptions of normative social behavior are dynamically constructed and organized with respect to time, space, and the people involved in the interaction. The differently scaled chronotopes of normalcy (re-)constructed and enregistered in these processes, I argue, guide social actors' sociolinguistic behaviors and normative judgments. Through an analysis of participants' metacommentaries on appropriate language choice, I discuss how chronotopic and scalar understandings of normalcy can offer us a broader theory of language use and can be applied to a wide array of sociolinguistic phenomena beyond language choice.
Source: Language and Communication - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research