TY - BOOK ID - 85919480 TI - Language and belonging : local categories and practices in a Guatemalan Highland community PY - 2019 SN - 3631768923 363173560X 3631768931 PB - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group DB - UniCat KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Belonging KW - Categories KW - Community KW - community of practice KW - conversation analysis KW - Guatemalan KW - Highland KW - Language KW - linguistic anthropology KW - Local KW - narrative analysis KW - Practices KW - pragmatics KW - socio-linguistics KW - Vallentin UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85919480 AB - In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conversation analysis and an analysis of narrative as practice bolstered with ethnographic knowledge, the author shows how belonging is tied to locally contextualized use of deictics and to collectively shared narrations of the past in a Guatemalan community. The book examines the understudied phenomenon of belonging at the intersection of pragmatics and linguistic anthropology. ER -