par Zienkowski, Jan
Référence AC/DC Workshop of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (12/02/2013: Amsterdam)
Publication Non publié, 2013
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : In this paper, I focus on the way activists and intellectuals with a Moroccan/Flemish background people articulate their political world-views with a preferred sense of self, relying on meta pragmatic markers to position themselves in relation to the discourse and practices of other actors in society (e.g. parents, peers, teachers, friends, political opponents and / or institutions wielding minority and/or majority discourses). Intertextuality is found in their rearticulation of discourse(s) that originated elsewhere. I investigate metapragmatic markers by which individuals highlight mental processes with respect to language use that are relevant to their selves within a given context (see Blommaert 2005: 253; Verschueren 1999: 187-88). The self is regarded as a reification of the processes that allow an individual to (reflectively) position him-/herself as a coherent and whole mind/body in relation to spatial, temporal, social, and (inter)textual aspects of (contextual) reality. Any of these relations may be indexed by means of metapragmatic language use (Verschueren 1999). Metapragmatic markers appear to provide clues as to how they argue for a preferred mode of ethics and politics and I can illustrate this with examples derived from transcriptions. The investigated discourse markers include hedging (see Hyland 2000; McLaren-Hankin 2008) and various forms of rearticulated or reported speech (see Coulmas 1998; Daryl Slack 1996; Holt 2009; Howarth 2004). I look forward to discussing my approach at ACDC. The attached article (found in the Archives section of the ACDC website) will give you a taste of this research and will hopefully lead to a lively discussion.

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