Citation

Arnold L. J. Ling. Anthropol. 2012; 22(3): 137-158.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01153.x

PMID

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Abstract

The study of participation within linguistic anthropology has developed a nuanced understanding of participant roles and examined the process by which such roles are enacted in participation frameworks. This paper examines what I call modes of engagement, that is, role-based differential use of forms of embodied and linguistic participation. I argue that such engagement modes are central in defining and differentiating participant roles themselves. The analysis focuses on data gathered at a bilingual bicycle-repair shop with an overtly prescriptive ideology of participation. Ethnographic and interactional analysis demonstrates that such ideologies both influence and are shaped by local practices, and have material consequences for who can participate and how they do so.

Language: en