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In translanguaging studies the opposite has happened: scholars have attended to multilingual communication without really paying attention to multimodality and simultaneity, and hierarchies within the simultaneous combination of resources. Thus while attending to multimodal communication, they do not attend to multilingual communication. In most multimodality studies, researchers focus on participants using one named spoken language within broader embodied human action. We discuss key assumptions and analytical developments that have shaped the sociolinguistic study of signed and spoken language multilingualism as separate from different strands of multimodality studies. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, moving from bilingualism to multilingualism and (trans)languaging, have resulted in the revitalisation of the concept of language repertoires.

Attaching particular importance to the perspective of the experiencing subject, the concept is based on phenomenological approaches, as developed in the 1940s by the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty.ДЄbstract: This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and spoken) language and multimodality. The notion of the lived experience of language which I am elaborating here emphasizes the intersubjective dimension of language as a gesture toward the other and casts light on the often-neglected bodily and emotional dimensions of perception and speech.

#LINGUISTIC REPERTOIRE HOW TO#

In foregrounding the concept of Spracherleben, the lived experience of language, this article contributes to the ongoing debate on how to rethink the notion of the linguistic repertoire considering that current phenomena such as increased mobility, migration, or participation in transnational networks of communication make it difficult to take, as Gumperz (1964) did in his original concept, relatively stable speech communities as point of departure. The final part of the article discusses how a poststructuralist approach can contribute to expanding the notion of вЂrepertoireвЂ™.ДЄbstract: The aim of this article is to explore the connections between the concepts of the linguistic repertoire, of language ideologies, and of lived experience of language.

In the second part, this article considers a novel methodological approach to studying linguistic repertoires: a multimodal, biographical approach using a language portrait, which involves a close reading of the visual and verbal representation of linguistic experience and linguistic resources. It then argues that poststructuralist approaches, exemplified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, add an exploration of previously neglected factors such as the power of categories or the significance of desire in language.

The first part of the article revisits GumperzвЂ™s notion of a linguistic repertoire, and then considers the challenge to the concept represented by the conditions of super-diversity. Abstract: This article argues for the relevance of poststructuralist approaches to the notion of a linguistic repertoire and introduces the notion of language portraits as a basis for empirical study of the way in which speakers conceive and represent their heteroglossic repertoires.

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