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This chapter focuses on the role of non-language resources in the construction of identities and spaces. More specifically, the analysis discussed in this chapter relies on Sacks’ (1972, 1992) membership categorization device (MCD) to demonstrate how the participants draw on activities such as going to local German clubs, German schools, and eating and preparing certain kinds of food in the construction of a particular German-Canadian space and for positioning themselves in relation to it (cf. Chapter 2). In our analysis, we then focus on the ways in which participants use language to index and negotiate these activities.
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© 2013 Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain
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Liebscher, G., Dailey-O’Cain, J. (2013). Non-Language Resources. In: Language, Space, and Identity in Migration. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316431_6
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