Books in the Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen: Identitaeten und Zugehoerigkeiten / Linguistic Construction of Social Boundaries: Identities and Belonging series

The book deals with the relationship between speakers' sense of belonging and their language use by examining their interactions in a Guatemalan community. The analysis shows that belonging is tied to the use of social, spatial and temporal categories, the relations between them, and collectively shared linguistic practices.

The methodologies used in the studies of representation in the context of migration, in which narratives are regarded as part of the corpus.

O trabalho analisa a etnicidade em movimento manifestada em descendentes de imigrantes italianos no Brasil na perspectiva da Ecolinguistica e da Linguistica Ecossistemica. O aporte teorico se fundamenta em estudos de Contato de Linguas, Redes Sociais, Comunidades de Pratica, Identidade, "Belonging" e Transculturalidade.