Anna De Fina
2021
Fina, Anna De
Doing narrative analysis from a narratives- as-practices perspective Journal Article
In: Narrative Inquiry, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 49-71, 2021.
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2020
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Fina, Anna De; Georgakopoulou, Alexandra
The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies Book
Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108348195.
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Fina, Anna De
Migrant Youth Push Back. Virtual Friendships and Everyday Resistance In The Digital Sphere Journal Article
In: Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, vol. 59, pp. 1833-1861, 2020.
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abstract = {Resistance has proven to be a hard concept to define. Debates about resistance in the sociological and sociolinguistic literature cover many aspects: from the degree to which resistance can be seen as related to established social groups (see Rampton 1996), to the level of agentivity and intention that is required for an action to be regarded as resistant, to the type of social behavior that qualifies. Thus, while some see resistance as based on actions, others see it as based on cultural appropriation (Hall & Jefferson 1976). In their comprehensive review of literature on the topic, Hollander & Einwohner (2004) conclude that resistance can be seen as consisting of action and opposition. In this paper, I analyze resistance from the point of view of opposition to ideas, social situations, institutional actions and processes that result or may result in discrimination or stereotyping of specific social groups, as negotiated in the digital sphere by migrant and non-migrant youth belonging to a school-based community. Indeed, it has been argued (Chiluwa 2012, Chibuwe & Ureke 2016) that digital environments constitute ideal arenas for the development of resistance thanks to their wide reach and their ability to mobilize people around common themes. However, much of the research in this area has targeted organized resistance fueled by political or ethnic groups. In this paper I argue that resistance is an emerging process that does not necessarily stem within political contexts or from open choice, but can develop within interactional exchanges focused on everyday life events. Thus, what I am interested in here is in how spontaneous acts and discourses of resistance emerge in the everyday exchanges of a diverse community that was not born around a particular social or political agenda. For this paper, I will examine exchanges that happen on the Facebook page of one of the members of the community. I will show how resistance takes many forms: from irony and jokes to the raising of serious topics, to the dissemination of information and through different discourse genres: from storytelling to the posting of pictures.},
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Resistance has proven to be a hard concept to define. Debates about resistance in the sociological and sociolinguistic literature cover many aspects: from the degree to which resistance can be seen as related to established social groups (see Rampton 1996), to the level of agentivity and intention that is required for an action to be regarded as resistant, to the type of social behavior that qualifies. Thus, while some see resistance as based on actions, others see it as based on cultural appropriation (Hall & Jefferson 1976). In their comprehensive review of literature on the topic, Hollander & Einwohner (2004) conclude that resistance can be seen as consisting of action and opposition. In this paper, I analyze resistance from the point of view of opposition to ideas, social situations, institutional actions and processes that result or may result in discrimination or stereotyping of specific social groups, as negotiated in the digital sphere by migrant and non-migrant youth belonging to a school-based community. Indeed, it has been argued (Chiluwa 2012, Chibuwe & Ureke 2016) that digital environments constitute ideal arenas for the development of resistance thanks to their wide reach and their ability to mobilize people around common themes. However, much of the research in this area has targeted organized resistance fueled by political or ethnic groups. In this paper I argue that resistance is an emerging process that does not necessarily stem within political contexts or from open choice, but can develop within interactional exchanges focused on everyday life events. Thus, what I am interested in here is in how spontaneous acts and discourses of resistance emerge in the everyday exchanges of a diverse community that was not born around a particular social or political agenda. For this paper, I will examine exchanges that happen on the Facebook page of one of the members of the community. I will show how resistance takes many forms: from irony and jokes to the raising of serious topics, to the dissemination of information and through different discourse genres: from storytelling to the posting of pictures.
Fina, Anna De; Mazzaferro, Gerardo
Everyday Communicative Practices and Repertoires in Contexts of Involuntary and Enforced Immobility Journal Article
In: 2020.
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Fina, Anna De; Paternostro, Giuseppe; Amoruso, Marcello
Learning How to Tell, Learning How to Ask: Reciprocity and Storytelling as a Community Process Journal Article
In: Applied Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 352-369, 2020.
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Fina, Anna De
Biography as a political tool Book Chapter
In: pp. 64-85, Multilingual Matters, 2020, ISBN: 9781788924672.
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Fina, Anna De
4. Biography as Political Tool: The Case of the Dreamers Book Chapter
In: Rheindorf, Markus; Wodak, Ruth (Ed.): pp. 64-85, Multilingual Matters, 2020, ISBN: 9781788924689.
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Our late modern world has seen an intensification of human flows (Appadurai, 1996), principally due to global and local economic policies leading to greater and greater inequality and to increasing violence in many countries as a consequence of wars, conflicts and the redrawing of boundaries between communities. As greater numbers of migrants enter developed countries, anti-immigrant discourses are becoming increasingly mainstream and have come to represent a fundamental element of right-wing populist discourses (Wodak, 2015; Savski, this volume; Rheindorf & Wodak, this volume). In some countries such as the United States, however, the resurgence of anti-immigrant sentiments is not explained by the renewed force of migrant flows, but simply by the popularity of such views popularity among center and right-wing voters. Populism favors simplified versions of reality and it is indeed much easier to point to migrants as the source of social and economic problems than to look for the complex processes that cause their dislocation. Although many sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic studies of mainstream and populist discourses about migration exist, less attention has been devoted to how migrants and other disadvantaged groups react to them (but for an exception see Capstick, this volume). In this chapter I focus precisely on this issue, taking as an example the case of the Dreamers, young migrants who were taken into the US by their undocumented parents when they were children and who have since remained in the country.
2019
Fina, Anna De
1 Insights and Challenges of Chronotopic Analysis for Sociolinguistics Book Chapter
In: pp. 193-203, Multilingual Matters, 2019, ISBN: 9781788926621.
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Fina, Anna De
The ethnographic interview Book Chapter
In: pp. 154-167, Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9781315675824.
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Fina, Anna De
6. Commentary: Rapport in Qualitative Investigation, from Researcher’s Objectivity to Researcher’s Reflexivity Book Chapter
In: vol. 19, pp. 87-96, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN: 9781501507830.
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Fina, Anna De; Gore, Brittany Toscano
Online retellings and the viral transformation of a Twitter breakup story Book
John Benjamins, 2019.
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Fina, Anna De; Perrino, Sabina
Introduction: Storytelling in the digital world Book Chapter
In: pp. 1-8, Storytelling in the Digital World, 2019, ISBN: 9789027203960.
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Fina, Anna De; Perrino, Sabina
Storytelling in the Digital World Book
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019, ISBN: 978 90 272 0396 0.
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Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contributors’ online ethnographies investigate a wide range of themes including the nature of processes of transformation and recontextualization of offline events into digital narratives; the effects of digital anonymity and pseudonymity on narrative practices; the strategies through which virtual communities discursively work together to solidify and negotiate their sociocultural identities; the tensions between the affordances that characterize different online media and the communicative needs of users; the structures and modes in which virtual users construct and enact participatory practices in these environments; and the significance of different spatiotemporal dimensions in the encoding, sharing and appreciation of stories. More generally, the volume engages with some of the theoretical and methodological challenges that the growing presence of digital technologies and media poses to narrative analysis.
Fina, Anna De; Perrino, Sabina
Introduction: Chronotopes and chronotopic relations Journal Article
In: Language & Communication, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 67-70, 2019.
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Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of chronotope, originally developed in connection with his more general theory about literary genres, has been a prolific source of inspiration for research in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis more generally for the last fifteen years. Scholars have indeed analyzed chronotopes and chronotopic relations from the perspective of the way this concept enshrines language ideologies (Woolard, 2012, 2016; Karimzad and Catedral, 2018) or ethnicities (Dick, 2010; Koven, 2013; Dickinson et al., 2019), as a tool for understanding semiotic processes at different scales (Blommaert, 2015; Goebel, 2017), as a construct able to capture the ways in which participants use space/time connections in different discursive practices to achieve communicative goals (Lempert and Perrino, 2007; Blommaert, 2015)), and, more recently.
Fina, Anna De; Paternostro, Giuseppe; Amoruso, Marcello
Odysseus the traveler: Appropriation of a chronotope in a community of practice Journal Article
In: Language & Communication, vol. 70, pp. 71-81, 2019.
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In this article we analyze the role of chronotopes in the formation and negotiation of identities. In particular, we consider the case of a superdiverse community of practice formed by minors asylum seekers and teachers in a school of Italian in Sicily, Italy. In our analysis we stress the role of reciprocity on the ways in which the chronotopic figure of Odysseus is reinterpreted and appropriated by members of this community. We look at how through a process of mutual engagement the indexical values associated with the figure of Odysseus are recontextualized by both teachers and students in light of their present experiences. Data for the article come from interviews, narratives and artifacts produced during a narrative workshop held in the school around a reading of the Odyssey in the summer 2016.
Fina, Anna De; Dickinson, Maria Eugenia Merino
Chronotopic Identities: The South in the Narratives Told by Members of Mapuche Communities in Chile Book Chapter
In: vol. 15, Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-8153-9568-3.
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In this chapter we focus on the centrality of what we will call “the chronotope of the south” in the discourse of members of Mapuche families who have been displaced or have migrated from their places of origin in the Southern parts of Chile to the capital: Santiago. We will concentrate on narrative discourse and on the ways in which this chronotope is recruited by interviewees in order to authenticate a “real Mapuche” identity for themselves and to negotiate it with the interviewer. The analysis will also allow us to trace and describe how the chronotope is conceived of by interactants in terms of space and time and what kinds of actions and identities are associated with it. This, in turn will provide a picture of how members of these Mapuche communities define their ethnic identity.
Fina, Anna De
The Interview as an Interactional Event: Current Perspectives and New Directions Book Chapter
In: pp. 21-40, Springer, Cham, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-319-79001-5.
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The interview is a very common and popular data collection tool in the social sciences. However, interviews are also important tools to collect information in many other non-academic practices, such as asylum seekers’ procedures. Researchers and practitioners working with interviews (particularly in the area of narrative, which is the one that has the most bearing on the case of asylum seekers) tend to regard the interview merely as a container for meanings that are basically constructed and expressed by the interviewee. Therefore, they focus their analyses of interview data exclusively on the interviewee, without considering the role of the interviewer in eliciting/negotiating those data or the patterns of interaction occurring between the participants.
2017
Fina, Anna De
Afterword Journal Article
In: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, vol. 10, no. 3, 2017.
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Commentary on the papers of the Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice on Storytelling and Moral Work.
Fina, Anna De
Dialect performances in super diverse communities: the case for ethnographic approaches to language variation Book Chapter
In: Bassiousey, Reem (Ed.): pp. 19, Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 9781315279732.
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Fina, Anna De; Gore, Brittany Toscano
Online retellings and the viral transformation of a twitter breakup story: New challenges Journal Article
In: Narrative Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 235-260, 2017.
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The retelling and sharing of stories is not a new phenomenon. Many narrative analysts have devoted research to these processes. But the culture of participation ( Jenkins 2006 ) in the digital world has brought sharing to a completely new level by allowing users not only to broadcast their opinions and evaluations of a story but also to reappropriate it and recontextualize it in infinite recursions. We focus on such process of transformation of a narrative in different media and social media outlets through the analysis of the viral spread of a story posted by an individual Twitter user in 2015. Specifically, we illustrate how participation frameworks change from one retelling to another and how the original story becomes "nested" into a new meta-story centered on the twitter user as a character and on the viral spread of the story.
Fina, Anna De; Perrino, Sabina
Introduction: New challenges Book Chapter
In: vol. 27, no. 2, Narrative Inquiry, 2017.
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What is your dream? Fashioning the migrant self Journal Article
In: Language & Communication, vol. 59, pp. 42-52, 2017.
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In this paper I analyze a corpus of 15 video narratives of migration experiences posted on the United We Dream Movement website. The narratives are part of the group's campaign to convince the public and then President Obama to promote legislation to reform the migration system and help undocumented families stay together and not be deported. Based on a “narrative as practices” approach (De Fina and Georgakopoulou, 2008, 2012), I focus on the participation frameworks established through storytelling and on the linguistic and semiotic strategies used by narrators to present themselves as acceptable citizens. I illustrate how Dreamers negotiate both innovative identities as social activists and more “traditional” identities based on values largely shared in the host society.
Fina, Anna De
Diversity in school: Monolingual ideologies versus multilingual practices Book Chapter
In: Chapter 11, pp. 191-208, Georgetown University Press, 2017.
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spaces where cultures meet, clash and grapple with eachother” (Pratt, 1991, 34) have become more and more widespread in the late mod-ern world as globalization has radically increased population flows and transnationalexchanges. Thus, even countries that have been traditional sites of emigration ratherthan immigration, such as Italy, have seen a complete reversal, turning into pointsof arrival for people from all over the globe. Indeed, economic migration of foreign workers has become one of the most significant phenomena in the social life of mod-ern Italy. Over the past thirty years, the country has transformed itself completelyfrom a site of massive emigration to a destination for millions of immigrants froma wide spectrum of countries and areas, from Eastern Europe, to Africa, to Asia.This change follows economic trends in all of the European Union. But, while in the1970s immigration was restricted to North European countries that sought foreign workers either from former colonies or from the Mediterranean basin to employthem in construction and factories (see Calvanese and Pugliese 1988), starting in the1980s a new kind of migration has taken shape (see King 1993; Cole 1997), involvingItaly as well as other southern Mediterranean countries. Recent statistics publishedby Caritas (2012) report that immigrants in Italy in 2012 were about five million andconstituted 18 percent of the population, while in 2003 they constituted only 3.4percent of the total population (Delli Zotti et al. 2011). According to Cole (1997),new migrants come mainly from non-European countries, and are mostly “unsolic-ited and often unregulated and undocumented” (4). New migrants started targetingItaly due to the absence of tight controls and the existence of a vast informal market.Hence their numbers have been growing exponentially from the 1990s to the pres-ent. As noted by Cole and Booth (2007), immigrants’ contribution to the economyin Italy depends on local markets (13). While in the North they find employment in the small and medium-sized factories, in other areas (particularly in the South) theyperform low-skilled, temporary jobs, mostly in domestic services, in agriculture astemporal workers, and in the tertiary industry.},
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CONTACT ZONES, OR “SOCIAL
spaces where cultures meet, clash and grapple with eachother” (Pratt, 1991, 34) have become more and more widespread in the late mod-ern world as globalization has radically increased population flows and transnationalexchanges. Thus, even countries that have been traditional sites of emigration ratherthan immigration, such as Italy, have seen a complete reversal, turning into pointsof arrival for people from all over the globe. Indeed, economic migration of foreign workers has become one of the most significant phenomena in the social life of mod-ern Italy. Over the past thirty years, the country has transformed itself completelyfrom a site of massive emigration to a destination for millions of immigrants froma wide spectrum of countries and areas, from Eastern Europe, to Africa, to Asia.This change follows economic trends in all of the European Union. But, while in the1970s immigration was restricted to North European countries that sought foreign workers either from former colonies or from the Mediterranean basin to employthem in construction and factories (see Calvanese and Pugliese 1988), starting in the1980s a new kind of migration has taken shape (see King 1993; Cole 1997), involvingItaly as well as other southern Mediterranean countries. Recent statistics publishedby Caritas (2012) report that immigrants in Italy in 2012 were about five million andconstituted 18 percent of the population, while in 2003 they constituted only 3.4percent of the total population (Delli Zotti et al. 2011). According to Cole (1997),new migrants come mainly from non-European countries, and are mostly “unsolic-ited and often unregulated and undocumented” (4). New migrants started targetingItaly due to the absence of tight controls and the existence of a vast informal market.Hence their numbers have been growing exponentially from the 1990s to the pres-ent. As noted by Cole and Booth (2007), immigrants’ contribution to the economyin Italy depends on local markets (13). While in the North they find employment in the small and medium-sized factories, in other areas (particularly in the South) theyperform low-skilled, temporary jobs, mostly in domestic services, in agriculture astemporal workers, and in the tertiary industry.
spaces where cultures meet, clash and grapple with eachother” (Pratt, 1991, 34) have become more and more widespread in the late mod-ern world as globalization has radically increased population flows and transnationalexchanges. Thus, even countries that have been traditional sites of emigration ratherthan immigration, such as Italy, have seen a complete reversal, turning into pointsof arrival for people from all over the globe. Indeed, economic migration of foreign workers has become one of the most significant phenomena in the social life of mod-ern Italy. Over the past thirty years, the country has transformed itself completelyfrom a site of massive emigration to a destination for millions of immigrants froma wide spectrum of countries and areas, from Eastern Europe, to Africa, to Asia.This change follows economic trends in all of the European Union. But, while in the1970s immigration was restricted to North European countries that sought foreign workers either from former colonies or from the Mediterranean basin to employthem in construction and factories (see Calvanese and Pugliese 1988), starting in the1980s a new kind of migration has taken shape (see King 1993; Cole 1997), involvingItaly as well as other southern Mediterranean countries. Recent statistics publishedby Caritas (2012) report that immigrants in Italy in 2012 were about five million andconstituted 18 percent of the population, while in 2003 they constituted only 3.4percent of the total population (Delli Zotti et al. 2011). According to Cole (1997),new migrants come mainly from non-European countries, and are mostly “unsolic-ited and often unregulated and undocumented” (4). New migrants started targetingItaly due to the absence of tight controls and the existence of a vast informal market.Hence their numbers have been growing exponentially from the 1990s to the pres-ent. As noted by Cole and Booth (2007), immigrants’ contribution to the economyin Italy depends on local markets (13). While in the North they find employment in the small and medium-sized factories, in other areas (particularly in the South) theyperform low-skilled, temporary jobs, mostly in domestic services, in agriculture astemporal workers, and in the tertiary industry.
Fina, Anna De; Ikizoglu, Didem; Wegner, Jeremy
Diversity and super-diversity: Sociocultural linguistic perspectives Book
Georgetown University Press, 2017.
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Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception, and more recent scholarship complicates traditional associations between languages and social identities. Diversity-and even super-diversity-is now the norm. This volume examines the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and addresses the theoretical-methodological challenges that accounting for such phenomena pose to sociocultural linguistics. Diversity and Super-Diversity brings together top scholars in the field and stages the debate on super-diversity that will be sure to interest sociocultural linguists, generating discussion and informing future research.
Fina, Anna De; Tseng, Amelia
Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language. (S. Canagarajah, Ed.). Narrative in the study of migrants Journal Article
In: 2017, ISBN: 9780367581350.
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** Winner of AAAL Book Award 2020 **
**Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018**
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# Examines how basic constructs such as community, place, language, diversity, identity, nation-state, and social stratification are being retheorized in the context of human mobility;
# Analyses the impact of the ‘mobility turn’ on language use, including the parallel ‘multilingual turn’ and translanguaging;
# Discusses the migration of skilled and unskilled workers, different forms of displacement, and new superdiverse and diaspora communities;
# Explores new research orientations and methodologies, such as mobile and participatory research, multi-sited ethnography, and the mixing of research methods;
# Investigates the place of language in citizenship, educational policies, employment and social services.
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is essential reading for those with an interest in migration studies, language policy, sociolinguistic research and development studies.
**Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018**
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of this area, exploring language and human mobility in today’s globalised world. This key reference brings together a range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, drawing on subjects such as migration studies, geography, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Featuring over 30 chapters written by leading experts from around the world, this book:
# Examines how basic constructs such as community, place, language, diversity, identity, nation-state, and social stratification are being retheorized in the context of human mobility;
# Analyses the impact of the ‘mobility turn’ on language use, including the parallel ‘multilingual turn’ and translanguaging;
# Discusses the migration of skilled and unskilled workers, different forms of displacement, and new superdiverse and diaspora communities;
# Explores new research orientations and methodologies, such as mobile and participatory research, multi-sited ethnography, and the mixing of research methods;
# Investigates the place of language in citizenship, educational policies, employment and social services.
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is essential reading for those with an interest in migration studies, language policy, sociolinguistic research and development studies.
Fina, Anna De; Tseng, Amelia
Narrative in the study of migrants Book Chapter
In: Canagarajah, S. (Ed.): Chapter Narrative in the Study of Migrants, pp. 381-396, Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 9781138801981.
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Fina, Anna De
Diversity and Super-Diversity. Socicocultural Linguistic Perspectives Book
Georgetown University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781626164222.
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Fina, Anna De; Blommaert, Jan
Chronotopic Identities: On the Timespace Organization of Who We Are Book Chapter
In: Fina, Anna De; Wegner, J.; Ikizoglu, D. (Ed.): Chapter 1, pp. 1-15, Georgetown University Press, 2017.
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Fina, Anna De; Perrino, Sabina
Storytelling in the Digital Age Special Issue Narrative Inquiry Journal Article
In: Narrative Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 209-216, 2017.
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2016
Fina, Anna De; Merino, María-Eugenia; Becerra, Sandra
Narrative discourse in the construction of Mapuche ethnic identity in context of displacement Journal Article
In: Discourse & Society, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 60-80, 2016.
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Fina, Anna De
The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature Journal Article
In: Italian Culture, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 65-67, 2016.
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Fina, Anna De
Storytelling and audience reactions in social media Journal Article
In: Language in Society, vol. 45, no. 04, pp. 473-498, 2016.
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Fina, Anna De
Narrative Analysis Book Chapter
In: Hua, Zu (Ed.): pp. 327-342, Wiley Blackwell, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-118-83743-6.
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Narrative Analysis Book Chapter
In: Hua, Zu (Ed.): pp. 327-342, Wiley Blackwell, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-118-83743-6.
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Fina, Anna De; Baynham, Mike
Narrative analysis in migrant and transnational contexts Book Chapter
In: Jones, Martin; Martin, (Ed.): pp. 31-45, Routledge, 2016, ISBN: 9781315405346.
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2015
Fina, Anna De; Blommaert, Jan
Chronotopic Identities PhD Thesis
2015.
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Fina, Anna De
In: Language in Society, vol. 44, no. 05, pp. 733-736, 2015.
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Ethnography as complexifying lenses for sociolinguistic analysis Conference
Sociolinguistics of Globalization, vol. 146, no. 1, Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, 2015.
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Handbook of Narrative Analysis Book
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-118-45815-0.
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Discourse Analysis and Narrative Book Chapter
In: Tannen, Deborah; Hamilton, Heidi E.; Schiffrin, Deborah (Ed.): Chapter 2, pp. 152-167, John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
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Fina, Anna De
Narrative and Identities Book Chapter
In: Fina, Anna De; Georgakopoulou, Alexandra (Ed.): Chapter 6, pp. 351-368, Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
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Fina, Anna De
Transnational spaces of identity construction: Latinos in the United States Journal Article
In: Lingue Migranti e Nuovi Paesaggi, pp. 215-232, 2015, ISBN: 9788879167000.
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2014
Fina, Anna De
15 Afterword: Interdisciplinary Approaches Book Chapter
In: 2014, ISBN: 9781783092901.
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De Fina. A. (2014). Prologue. Theorizing and analyzing agency in Second language learning Book Chapter
In: Deters, Ping; Gao, Xuesong; Miller, Elizabeth R.; Vitanova, Gergana (Ed.): Chapter Afterword, pp. 271-277, Multilingual matters, 2014, ISBN: 9781783092888.
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Fina, Anna De
Language ideologies and practices in a transnational community Book Chapter
In: Reiter, R. Marquez; Rojo, L. Martin (Ed.): pp. 48-65, Routledge, 2014.
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abstract = {Globalization has radically transformed the way we live, conceive of ourselves, and communicate by opening up the world’s frontiers to the movement of goods, ideas, and people (see Appadurai, 1996; Coupland, 2003; Fairclough, 2006). One of the most important effects of globalization has been the heightened centrality of transnationalism (Vertovec, 2009), as not only do people move more often and in higher numbers from one geographical area to another, but they are also afforded greater opportunities to maintain contacts with their places of origin. Thus, members of transnational communities often “become involved in the chronic maintenance”(Rouse, 2004, p. 30) of different worlds, a process fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. Indeed, while languages and identities are traditionally defined in mainstream discourses in either/or terms, the experience of transnational people is always one of in-betweenness. Recent research on transnational and new urban communities points indeed to widespread tendencies toward the incorporation of notions of diversity in their everyday practices (see Blommaert & Rampton, 2011) as a result of continued contact and interaction. Thus, people in situations where movement across different geographical areas and/or contact with other ethnicities and languages are the norm tend to creatively incorporate diversity in their everyday lives, navigating between old and new identity categories and conflicting language ideologies.},
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Globalization has radically transformed the way we live, conceive of ourselves, and communicate by opening up the world’s frontiers to the movement of goods, ideas, and people (see Appadurai, 1996; Coupland, 2003; Fairclough, 2006). One of the most important effects of globalization has been the heightened centrality of transnationalism (Vertovec, 2009), as not only do people move more often and in higher numbers from one geographical area to another, but they are also afforded greater opportunities to maintain contacts with their places of origin. Thus, members of transnational communities often “become involved in the chronic maintenance”(Rouse, 2004, p. 30) of different worlds, a process fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. Indeed, while languages and identities are traditionally defined in mainstream discourses in either/or terms, the experience of transnational people is always one of in-betweenness. Recent research on transnational and new urban communities points indeed to widespread tendencies toward the incorporation of notions of diversity in their everyday practices (see Blommaert & Rampton, 2011) as a result of continued contact and interaction. Thus, people in situations where movement across different geographical areas and/or contact with other ethnicities and languages are the norm tend to creatively incorporate diversity in their everyday lives, navigating between old and new identity categories and conflicting language ideologies.
Fina, Anna De
In: 2014.
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Fina, Anna De
Language and identities in US communities of Italian origin Journal Article
In: Forum Italicum, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 253-267, 2014.
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abstract = {In this article I discuss relationships between language use and identity among Italian Americans. I argue that the study of identities needs to abandon essentialist stances that are particularly common in research on Italian Americans, and approach identity construction as a process that takes place within concrete social practices enacted by specific communities. I provide a brief overview of the linguistic development of Italian Americans in the USA in order to provide a frame of reference to the discussion of the links between language use and identities. I then focus in particular on the following phenomena: symbolic uses of individual Italian words or expressions within talk in English, engagement with the heritage language in Italian-American families and storytelling, to illustrate how Italianness is constructed through those practices in different communities. I use these examples also to problematize the idea that knowledge of the heritage language is central to ethnic identification. © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.},
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In this article I discuss relationships between language use and identity among Italian Americans. I argue that the study of identities needs to abandon essentialist stances that are particularly common in research on Italian Americans, and approach identity construction as a process that takes place within concrete social practices enacted by specific communities. I provide a brief overview of the linguistic development of Italian Americans in the USA in order to provide a frame of reference to the discussion of the links between language use and identities. I then focus in particular on the following phenomena: symbolic uses of individual Italian words or expressions within talk in English, engagement with the heritage language in Italian-American families and storytelling, to illustrate how Italianness is constructed through those practices in different communities. I use these examples also to problematize the idea that knowledge of the heritage language is central to ethnic identification. © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.