Building scalar frames of understandability in 'trans' practices within a Catalan Global StoryBridges site
Moore de Luca, Emilee (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Vallejo Rubinstein, Claudia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Llompart Esbert, Julia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Zhang, Miaomiao (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Publicació:	De Gruyter, 2021
Resum:	While the Global StoryBridges project's overarching aims are to promote critical cosmopolitan and transmodal communications between youth at different global sites, significant exchanges in relation to these goals also emerge within sites. In this chapter we zoom in on interaction occurring locally during a project session at the site in Catalonia (Spain). We examine how the participation of a graduate researcher from China in the facilitation and research at the site prompts meaningful possibilities for learning and communication by the youth and adult members. Analytically, we draw on the notion of sociolinguistic scale - or the 'spatiotemporal scope of understandability' - to enquire into how participants build scalar frames in their discourse (Blommaert, Westinen & Leppänen, 2015). We also employ the notion of transidiomatic practices to consider the 'comingling of localized, multilingual interactions and technologically mediated, digitalized communication' (Jacquemet, 2016: 8), as site participants deploy full linguistic repertoires and digital and embodied modes in constructing meaning. The ethnographic data we analyse include video-recordings of interactions and participant observations. The chapter contributes an understanding of how participants build understandings of themselves and others as they confront different worldviews, and of how interaction in the setting challenges monolingual, monocultural and monomodal approaches to education. The chapter is structured as follows. We begin by outlining the main theoretical notions that guide the analysis in relation to the conceptual framework presented by Hawkins in the opening of this volume. We then frame our participation in the Global StoryBridges network as one of several collaborative educational initiatives in the municipality where our site is located. The research methodology is then presented, together with two extracts of video data, which are analysed and discussed in order to later draw conclusions in the final section of the chapter.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PRPPGC2018-099071-A-I00
Drets:	Tots els drets reservats.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Publicat a:	Transmodal Communications : Transpositioning Semiotics and Relations, 2021, p. 22-42

DOI: 10.21832/9781788926379-004

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