Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women
Owing to the continuous influx of immigration in Catalonia, multilingualism has become the bedrock of this region. Still, Catalan and Spanish remain the dominant languages of everyday communication and immigrants are faced with the challenge of adopting both Spanish and Catalan linguistic identities...
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Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
2020
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| description | Owing to the continuous influx of immigration in Catalonia, multilingualism has become the bedrock of this region. Still, Catalan and Spanish remain the dominant languages of everyday communication and immigrants are faced with the challenge of adopting both Spanish and Catalan linguistic identities. This dual acculturation process can span across generations and can be impacted by a variety of sociocultural factors. Additionally, motivation to acculturate can be rooted in individuals’ own complex identities that are constructed in different sociocultural contexts, a connection that Norton (2000) has conceptualized as “investment.” This study examines Muslim immigrant women’s investment in Spanish and Catalan, as well as the sociocultural factors that play a role in this investment. The present study relies on data gathered from 34 Muslim immigrant women from diverse geographic backgrounds. Findings indicate that a variety of factors impact informants’ relationship with their linguistic identities, often in disparate ways. Furthermore, first and second-generation informants presented distinct experiences with acculturation, suggesting that it is a transgenerational process. Finally, informants’ responses also suggest that their linguistic investment is informed by their gendered and religious identity. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.revistas.uptc.edu.co:article-112292021-07-13T02:19:20Z Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women Multilingüismo y aculturación en Cataluña: un análisis de las mujeres inmigrantes musulmanas Multilingualismo e acultura em Catalonia: uma análise comparativa de mulheres imigrantes muçulmanas da primeira e segunda geração Ali, Farah Multilingualism, acculturation, migrant communities, Spanish, Catalan Owing to the continuous influx of immigration in Catalonia, multilingualism has become the bedrock of this region. Still, Catalan and Spanish remain the dominant languages of everyday communication and immigrants are faced with the challenge of adopting both Spanish and Catalan linguistic identities. This dual acculturation process can span across generations and can be impacted by a variety of sociocultural factors. Additionally, motivation to acculturate can be rooted in individuals’ own complex identities that are constructed in different sociocultural contexts, a connection that Norton (2000) has conceptualized as “investment.” This study examines Muslim immigrant women’s investment in Spanish and Catalan, as well as the sociocultural factors that play a role in this investment. The present study relies on data gathered from 34 Muslim immigrant women from diverse geographic backgrounds. Findings indicate that a variety of factors impact informants’ relationship with their linguistic identities, often in disparate ways. Furthermore, first and second-generation informants presented distinct experiences with acculturation, suggesting that it is a transgenerational process. Finally, informants’ responses also suggest that their linguistic investment is informed by their gendered and religious identity. Debido al continuo influjo de inmigración en Cataluña, el multilingüismo se ha convertido en la base de esta región. Aún así, el catalán y el español siguen como los idiomas dominantes de la comunicación cotidiana, y los inmigrantes se enfrentan al desafío de adoptar identidades lingüísticas en ambos. Este proceso de doble aculturación puede durar de generación en generación y puede ser afectado por una variedad de factores socioculturales. Además, la motivación para aculturarse puede estar enraizada en la propia identidad compleja que se construye en diferentes contextos socioculturales, una conexión que Norton (2000) ha conceptualizado como "inversión." Este estudio examina la inversión en español y catalán entre las mujeres inmigrantes musulmanas, y los factores socioculturales que la influyen. Este estudio se basa en datos recopilados de 34 mujeres inmigrantes musulmanas de diversos orígenes geográficos. Los resultados indican que una variedad de factores afecta la relación entre las informantes y sus identidades lingüísticas, a menudo de maneras dispares. Además, las informantes de primera y segunda generación presentaron distintas experiencias con la aculturación, lo que sugiere que es un proceso transgeneracional. Finalmente, las respuestas de las informantes también sugieren que su inversión lingüística se basa en su identidad de género y religiosa. Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2020-07-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/linguistica_hispanica/article/view/11229 10.19053/0121053X.n36.2020.11229 Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica; No. 36: July-December 2020; 181-209 Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica; Núm. 36: (julio-diciembre de 2020); 181-209 2346-1829 0121-053X spa https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/linguistica_hispanica/article/view/11229/9449 https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/linguistica_hispanica/article/view/11229/10166 Copyright (c) 2020 Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica |
| spellingShingle | Multilingualism, acculturation, migrant communities, Spanish, Catalan Ali, Farah Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women |
| title | Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women |
| title_alt | Multilingüismo y aculturación en Cataluña: un análisis de las mujeres inmigrantes musulmanas Multilingualismo e acultura em Catalonia: uma análise comparativa de mulheres imigrantes muçulmanas da primeira e segunda geração |
| title_full | Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women |
| title_fullStr | Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women |
| title_short | Multilingualism and Acculturation in Catalonia: An Analysis of Muslim Immigrant Women |
| title_sort | multilingualism and acculturation in catalonia an analysis of muslim immigrant women |
| topic | Multilingualism, acculturation, migrant communities, Spanish, Catalan |
| topic_facet | Multilingualism, acculturation, migrant communities, Spanish, Catalan |
| url | https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/linguistica_hispanica/article/view/11229 |
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