1887
  1. Home
  2. e-Journals
  3. Language, Culture and Society
  4. Volume 3, Issue 1
  5. Article
Volume 3, Issue 1
  • ISSN 2543-3164
  • E-ISSN: 2543-3156
USD
Buy:$35.00 + Taxes

Abstract

Abstract

By following a sociolinguistic, ethnographic approach, this paper explores the intricacies behind the construction of a collective identity in the practices of a community radio station, off- and on-air, that serves the Spanish speaking Latin American community in London. The analysis of the information gathered from a 6-months ethnography conducted in a well-established radio station in South London, allowed me to document how the politics of identity delivered on air, far from being a straightforward process, entails some decisions regarding what to say and how, in order to deliver harmonious relations. The shared use of the Spanish language, albeit in different varieties, and some perceived shared values, become the salient markers to present this harmonious identity. Projecting a unified group identity is seen as an important aim for migrants when navigating diaspora in the UK.

© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/lcs.00032.pat
2021-06-18
2025-06-22

  • From This Site

    /content/journals/10.1075/lcs.00032.pat
    dcterms_title,dcterms_subject,pub_keyword
    -contentType:Journal -contentType:Contributor -contentType:Concept -contentType:Institution
    10
    5
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Androutsopoulos, J.
    (2006) Multilingualism, diaspora, and the Internet: Codes and identities on German-based diaspora websites. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 10(4), 520–547. 10.1111/j.1467‑9841.2006.00291.x
     https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2006.00291.x [Google Scholar]
  2. Balfour, S.
    (1995) “The Loss of Empire, Regenerationism, and the Forging of a Myth of national Identity.” Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: 25–31.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Bailey, B.
    (2000) Language and negotiation of ethnic/racial identity among Dominican Americans. Language in Society, 29, 555–582. 10.1017/S0047404500004036
     https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500004036 [Google Scholar]
  4. Bayley, R.
    (2014) Demographic Categories in Sociolinguistic Studies of US Latino Communities. Language and Linguistics Compass (8)11: 536–547. 10.1111/lnc3.12116
     https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12116 [Google Scholar]
  5. Berg, M. L.
    (2019) Super-diversity, austerity, and the production of precarity: Latin Americans in London. Critical Social Policy, 39(2): 184–204. 10.1177/0261018318790744
     https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018318790744 [Google Scholar]
  6. Block, D.
    (2007) Second Language Identities. London: Continuum.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. Burnett, J.
    (2016) Entitlement and Belonging: Social Restructuring and Multicultural Britain. An IRR Discussion Paper on the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 and the Immigration Bill 2015. London: Institute of Race Relations.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Busch, B. & P. Pfisterer
    (2011) Interaction and the Media. InWodak, R., B. Johnstone, P. Kerswill (eds.). The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage428–442. 10.4135/9781446200957.n30
     https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446200957.n30 [Google Scholar]
  9. Busch, B.
    (2017) Expanding the notion of the linguistic repertoire: On the concept of Spracherleben-The lived experience of language.” Applied Linguistics38(3): 340-358.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Brubaker, R.
    (2005) The ‘diaspora’ diaspora. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28 (1): 1–19. 10.1080/0141987042000289997
     https://doi.org/10.1080/0141987042000289997 [Google Scholar]
  11. CLAUK
    CLAUK. Voicing the Collective Interests of the Latin American Community in the UK. www.clauk.org.uk/ [Accessed, Dec, 22, 2020].
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Cook, J. C.
    (2011) Latin American commercial spaces and the formation of ethnic publics in London. InMcIlwaine, C. (ed.), Cross-Border Migration Among Latin Americans. European Perspectives and Beyond. (pp.175–196). New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. 10.1057/9781137001887_10
     https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001887_10 [Google Scholar]
  13. Coupland, N.
    (2010) The authentic speaker and the speech community. InLlamas, C. and D. Watt (eds.) Language and identities, Edinburgh University Press: 99–112.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. De Fina, A.
    (2013) Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies of Identity Construction in Ethnic Media. Applied Linguistics, 34/5: 554–573. 10.1093/applin/amt026
     https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amt026 [Google Scholar]
  15. Del Valle, J.
    (2007) Lengua, patria común: la hispanofonía y el nacionalismo pahhispánico. In. Del Valle, J. (ed.) ¿La lengua, patria común? Ideas e ideologías del español. Madrid: Iberoamericana.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. Duchene, A. & and M. Heller
    (2012) Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit. London: Routledge. 10.4324/9780203155868
     https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203155868 [Google Scholar]
  17. Downing, J. D., & Husband, C.
    (2005) Representing race: Racisms, ethnicity and the media. NY/London: Sage.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Georgiou, M.
    (2005) Diasporic media across Europe: multicultural societies and the universalism–particularism continuum. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 31(3), 481–498. 10.1080/13691830500058794
     https://doi.org/10.1080/13691830500058794 [Google Scholar]
  19. (2006) Diaspora, Identity and the Media. Diasporic transnationalism and mediated spatialities. Cresskill: Hampton Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  20. Goffman, E.
    (1974) Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. (1981) Forms of talk. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  22. Habermas, J.
    (1991) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society: MIT Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  23. Heller, M., Pietikäinen, S. & Pujolar, J.
    (2018) Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods. Taylor & Francis.
     [Google Scholar]
  24. Howley, Kevin
    (2010) Understanding community media. Los Angeles, [Calif.]; London: SAGE.
     [Google Scholar]
  25. Kruijt, D.
    (2007) Fractured cities: social exclusion, urban violence and contested spaces in Latin America. London: Zed Books.
     [Google Scholar]
  26. Leeman, J.
    (2018) Becoming Hispanic: The negotiation of ethnoracial identity in US census interviews. Latino Studies (16): 432–460. 10.1057/s41276‑018‑0147‑6
     https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-018-0147-6 [Google Scholar]
  27. (2020) The nexus of academic knowledge, political agendas, and self-identification in census ethnoracial classification. Forum – Unequal Knowledge, Constested Knowledge. Language, Culture and Society, 2:1: 92–99. 10.1075/lcs.00020.lee
     https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00020.lee [Google Scholar]
  28. Lewis, P.
    (2008) Finding and funding Voices: the London experience. Information, Society and Justice, 2.1: pp5–20.
     [Google Scholar]
  29. Márquez-Reiter, R. & Patiño-Santos, A.
    (2017) The discursive construction of moral agents among successful economic migrants in Elephant & Castle, London. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies Babylon, Paper 194.
     [Google Scholar]
  30. Martins Junior, A.
    (2014) Lives in motion: notebooks of an immigrant in London. Whyte Tracks.
     [Google Scholar]
  31. Mas Giralt, R. and Granada, L.
    (2015) Latin Americans migrating from Europe to the UK: Barriers to accessing public services and welfare, University of Leeds: Leeds. www.lawrs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Latin-Americans-migrating-from-Europe-tothe-UK. (accessed29/12/2020).
  32. Matsaganis, M., V. S. Katz, and S. J. BallRokeach
    (2011) Understanding Ethnic Media. Producers, Consumers, Society. London: Sage.
     [Google Scholar]
  33. Mavroudi, E.
    (2007) Diaspora as process:(de) constructing boundaries. Geography Compass1(3): 467–479. 10.1111/j.1749‑8198.2007.00033.x
     https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00033.x [Google Scholar]
  34. McIlwaine, C.
    ed Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 10.1057/9781137001887
     https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001887 [Google Scholar]
  35. McIlwaine, C., Cock, J. C. & Linneker, B.
    (2011) No Longer Invisible: the Latin American community in London. Queen Mary, Latin American Women’s Rights Services, Trust for London.
     [Google Scholar]
  36. McIlwaine, Cathy. J. & Bunge, D.
    (2016) Towards Visibility: the Latin American Community in London. London: Trust for London.
     [Google Scholar]
  37. Mendoza-Denton, Norma
    2008 Homegirls: language and cultural practice among Latina youth gangs. Oxford: Blackwell. 10.1002/9780470693728
     https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470693728 [Google Scholar]
  38. Morales, D.
    (2018) “Si me quedo aquí toda la noche seguiré hablando español”. Ideologías lingüísticas en inmigrantes latinoamericanos en Londres. Revista internacional de lingüística iberoamericana, 31: 99–122.
     [Google Scholar]
  39. Montañez, M. S.
    (2020) Lemme Hablar: Community Engagement and the Latin American Community in Southwark. Institute of Modern Languages Research (UCL), Cross-Language Dynamics, OWRI, UKRI and Arts and Humanities Research Council.
     [Google Scholar]
  40. Oboler, S.
    (1995) Ethnic labels, Latino lives: Identity and the politics of (re) presentation in the United States. U of Minnesota Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  41. Patiño-Santos, Adriana & Márquez Reiter, Rosina
    (2018) Banal interculturalism: Latin Americans in Elephant and Castle, London, Language and Intercultural Communication, 19:3, 227–241.
     [Google Scholar]
  42. Però, D.
    (2011), Policy Change from Below. Recognising Migrants’ Political Agency among Latin Americans in London. InMcIlwaine, C. (ed) Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond. (pp.119-137) New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
     [Google Scholar]
  43. Pietikäinen, S.
    (2008) Broadcasting Indigenous Voices Sami Minority Media Production. European Journal of Communication23(2): 173–191. 10.1177/0267323108089221
     https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323108089221 [Google Scholar]
  44. Retis, J.
    (2019) Homogenizing Heterogeneity in Transnational Contexts: Latin American Diasporas and the Media in the Global North. InRetis, J. and R. Tsagarousianou (eds.) The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blacwell, pp.115–136. 10.1002/9781119236771.ch8
     https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119236771.ch8 [Google Scholar]
  45. Román, P. & Retis, J.
    (2020) Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging: Latin Americans in London. London: Springer Nature.
     [Google Scholar]
  46. Salinas, C. Jr. & A. Lozano
    (2019) Mapping and recontextualizing the evolution of the term Latinx: An environmental scanning in higher education, Journal of Latinos and Education, 18:4, 302–315. 10.1080/15348431.2017.1390464
     https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2017.1390464 [Google Scholar]
  47. Schecter, S. R., & Bayley, R.
    (2002) Language as cultural practice: Mexicanos en el norte. Hillsdale, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
     [Google Scholar]
  48. Siapera, E.
    (2010) Cultural diversity and global media: The mediation of difference. John Wiley & Sons. 10.1002/9781444319132
     https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444319132 [Google Scholar]
  49. Silverstone, R.
    (2005) The sociology of mediation and communication. The SAGE Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage, 188–207. 10.4135/9781848608115.n11
     https://doi.org/10.4135/9781848608115.n11 [Google Scholar]
  50. Silverstone, R., & Georgiou, M.
    (2003) Mapping Diasporic Minorities and Their Media in Europe. Studying the Media. Investigating Inclusion and Participation in European Societies, European and Transnational Communities, European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network.
     [Google Scholar]
  51. Spitulnik, D.
    (1997) The social circulation of media discourse and the mediation of communities. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology6(2):161–187. 10.1525/jlin.1996.6.2.161
     https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1996.6.2.161 [Google Scholar]
  52. Tseng, A.
    (2018) Abriendo closings in bilingual radio speech: Discourse strategies, code-switching, and the interactive construction of broadcast structures and institutional identity. Text & Talk, 38(4), 481–502. 10.1515/text‑2018‑0011
     https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2018-0011 [Google Scholar]
  53. Wei, L., & Hua, Z.
    (2013) Diaspora: Multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space. AILA Review, 26 (1), 42–56. 10.1075/aila.26.04wei
     https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.26.04wei [Google Scholar]
  54. Zentella, Ana Celia
    1997 Growing up bilingual: Puerto Rican children in New York. Oxford: Blackwell.
     [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1075/lcs.00032.pat
Loading
  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): diasporic media; migrant broadcasters; Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in London; strategic collective identity

Most Cited

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was successful
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error