Americans Create Hybrid Spaces in Costa Rica: A Framework for Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Integration

Autor/in	Spencer, Anthony
Titel	Americans Create Hybrid Spaces in Costa Rica: A Framework for Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Integration
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 11 (2011) 1, S.59-74 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Linguistics; Cultural Awareness; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Immigration; Immigrants; English; Native Speakers; Relocation; Ethnography; Interviews; Conflict; Advantaged; Cultural Differences; Social Integration; Acculturation; Costa Rica + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Linguistik; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; English language; Englisch; Muttersprachler; Umsetzung; Ethnografie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Konflikt; Kultureller Unterschied; Soziale Integration; Akkulturation
Abstract	This study explores the ways in which English-speaking immigrants negotiate new linguistic and cultural landscapes. I examine immigration and intercultural communication in a more complex and nuanced manner by researching the ways in which expatriates or "high-end" immigrants relocate and interact with host cultures. I conducted 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in-depth interviews in Costa Rica to explore this phenomenon. I employ critical discourse analysis to analyze the data in the theoretical framework of hybridity as the participants create interesting linguistic and cultural spaces in Costa Rica. In these moments of contingency and conflict we are forced to renegotiate the concept of immigration and construction of immigrant. This study illustrates both practical and theoretical intercultural implications as relatively affluent English-speaking migrants have begun to move outside their homelands. This movement of people creates a need for scholars to rethink definitions of immigrants as non-traditional immigrants relocate to new cultural and linguistic terrains. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10