Vol. 2 Núm. 5 (2009): YOLANDA’S PORTRAIT: A STORY OF TRIQUI LINGUISTIC RESISTANCE MEDIATED BY ENGLISH AND ETHNOGRAPHIC COEVALNESS IN OAXACA, M
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YOLANDA’S PORTRAIT: A STORY OF TRIQUI LINGUISTIC RESISTANCE MEDIATED BY ENGLISH AND ETHNOGRAPHIC COEVALNESS IN OAXACA, MEXICO

Ángeles Clemente
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Michael J. Higgins
Facultad de Idiomas Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
Yolanda Merino-López
Facultad de Idiomas Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
William Sughrua
Facultad de Idiomas Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
Publicado agosto 14, 2018

Resumen

ABSTRACT
This ethnographic study provides insights into the social contradictions of everyday language use in the multicultural context of Oaxaca, México. Following a coeval perspective (Fabian, 2007), the researchers, along with the participant, co-construct or co-perform the ethnographic encounter. Based on a larger ethnographic study on how Oaxacan university students perform English with a ‘postcolonial accent,’ the authors explore Yolanda’s use of English, along with Spanish and Triqui, as a series of multilingual social and cultural performances (Clemente and Higgins, 2008). This study takes place within the B.A. program in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at the Language Centre of the state university of Oaxaca. Here, Yolanda becomes the sole focus within the coeval ethnographic perspective; that is, Yolanda is the co-performer of the ethnographic encounter.

KEYWORDS: Ethnographic Encounter - Coeval Perspective - Oaxaca - Triqui: Indigenous Peoples

 

RESUMEN
Este estudio etnográfico reflexiona sobre las contradicciones sociales del uso cotidiano del lenguaje en el contexto multicultural de Oaxaca, México. Basado en una perspectiva coeva o de coexistencia (Fabian, 2007), los investigadores junto con la participante, son los coconstructores y co-realizadores del encuentro etnográfico (ibid). Partiendo de un estudio etnográfico previo sobre la forma en que estudiantes universitarios oaxaqueños realizan su inglés con un acento postcolonial, los autores exploran la forma en que Yolanda hace de su inglés, junto con su español y su triqui, una serie de realizaciones sociales y culturales multilingües (Clemente & Higgins, 2008). Este estudio se lleva a cabo dentro del contexto de la licenciatura en la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera en la Facultad de Idiomas de la universidad estatal de Oaxaca. Aquí, Yolanda es la única participante dentro de esta perspectiva de coexistencia etnográfica; es decir, Yolanda es la co-realizadora del encuentro etnográfico.

PALABRAS CLAVE: Encuentro etnográfico - Perspectiva coeva - Oaxaca - Triqui - Pueblos indígenas.

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