In Their Own Words: Language, Identity, and fer futur
摘要
This chapter documents locally meaningful, patterned ways of speaking that reproduce Catalan culture discursively, contributing to contemporary communicative ecologies and revealing community values and mores. The documentation features a cultural tropology incorporating orthographic transcriptions and English translations of primary source discourse in Spanish and Catalan. Vann analyzes local ways of orienting to social realities concerning language and globalization vis-à-vis identity, diversity, and transnationalism in Catalonia’s unique and complex cultural setting. Widely practiced “Catalan identity construction beyond llengua pròpia” tropes convey an approach to doing being Catalan rooted in generational actualization and entelechy. Emergent coding suggests profound longitudinal changes in community understandings of local cultural categories. “Fer futur” tropes indicate an identity of responses relating mostly to Silvia’s coterie, perhaps constitutive of a distinct generation unit.