I conclude with the far-reaching implications for redefining the language competence of multilinguals. I then analyze chosen interactions of multilingual science scholars to demonstrate how spatial repertoires interact with community and personal repertoires of a focal participant to facilitate successful communication. I situate them in theorizations such as multimodal versus verbal, and community versus personal repertoires, which have been already adopted in interactional analyses. To facilitate this analysis, I first theorize the notion of spatial repertoires as distinct from other types of repertoires. From this perspective, we have to analyze how meanings emerge through the collaborative work of participants in relation to the contribution of semiotic and material resources in their physical settings. Scholars from New Materialist orientations have recently persuaded us to consider, alternatively, the role of distributed practice, the agency of matter, and nonrepresentational embodiment. Analysis is influenced by the perspective that individuals agentively use objects to convey their predefined meanings.
Though applied linguists have expanded their orientations of analyzing language interactions to multilingualism and multimodality, their analysis is largely influenced by the traditional assumptions of methodological individualism, human agency, and cognitive representationalism. Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University Spatial Repertoires in the Competence of Multilingual Speakers Paying attention to ideological and practical (assumed) hierarchies of resources (which are contextual and situated), we theorize on what the study of the distribution of resources, spatiality, moral orientation and emotions means for the conceptualization of the semiotic repertoire. This symposium examines how the semiotic repertoire is distributed, experienced and embodied among diverse population groups. Importantly, Kusters, Spotti, Swanwick and Tapio (2017) argued that the lens of semiotic repertoires enables synergies to be identified between sign language research, gesture studies, spoken language linguistics and provides a holistic focus on action that is both multilingual and multimodal. This colloquium engages with the latter: the concept of the semiotic repertoire, defined as the totality of resources or tools that people use when they communicate (such as speech, image, text, gesture, sign, gaze, facial expression, posture, objects and so on). In line with this shift, researchers have used various overlapping terms such as “linguistic repertoire”, “communicative repertoire”, “spatial repertoire” and “semiotic repertoire”. This is largely due to shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, and moves away from bilingualism and code-switching to concepts such as (trans)languaging. Recent years have seen a revitalisation in the use of Gumperz and Hymes’ (1972) notion of the verbal repertoire. Race, Racial Justice and Indigenous Language Revitalization Guidelines for Publishing in Applied Linguistics International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022 – 2032Īpplied Linguistics Events and Call For Proposals Indigenous Language Scholarship Support Fundĭistinguished Scholarship and Service Awardĭistinguished Service and Engaged Research Graduate Student Award The final part of the article discusses how a poststructuralist approach can contribute to expanding the notion of "repertoire".Committees, Councils & Task Forces 2023-2024įund for the Future of Applied LinguisticsĪn Open Letter Regarding Diversity in AAAL 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 Gumperz's notion of a linguistic repertoire, and then considers the challenge to the concept represented by the conditions of super-diversity. 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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