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dc.contributor.authorGrasso, Arianna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-11T11:00:37Z
dc.date.available2024-01-11T11:00:37Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationGrasso, Arianna. "Refugee linguascapes: The role of English in Australia-run detention contexts". «Testi e linguaggi» 17 (2023): 66-86. [Studi monografici Language contact, variation and change across borders: diasporas, mobility, barriers]it_IT
dc.identifier.isbn978-88-290-1959-5it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1974-2886it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6917
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4976
dc.description.abstractDrawing upon the framework of Critical Sociolinguistics, this paper aims at understanding the role of English within the Australian mandatory detention system vis-à-vis the material, communicative and symbolic marginalization to which a group of refugees were subjected. On this premise, the research applies a content-analytical ethnographic framework to the purposely built Refugee Interview Corpus (ric). In particular, the work reflects upon the role of the English language and its perceived contexts of use. Findings have shown that English was viewed by research participants as a bridge language (lingua franca); a resistance language (lingua liberatrix); an oppression language (lingua opprimens); a socio-digital language (lingua socialis); and an educational language (lingua instruens). While serving multifarious purposes inside detention, English formed continuums of usages in a variety of situational contexts. If on the one hand refugees acquired linguistic agency through English, on the other, the linguascape of detention emerged as embedded within broader dynamics of power, subjugation, and violence.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 66-86it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherRoma: Carocciit_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectRefugee Linguascapeit_IT
dc.subjectAustralian mandatory detention policyit_IT
dc.subjectEnglish languageit_IT
dc.subjectCritical sociolinguisticsit_IT
dc.subjectDigital linguistic ethnographyit_IT
dc.subjectRefugee interview corpusit_IT
dc.titleRefugee linguascapes: The role of English in Australia-run detention contextsit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTesti e linguaggiit_IT
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