ABSTRACT

Until recently, the role of material culture in language has been little studied or seen as the context where language use is situated (Aronin et al., 2018). This article looks at the materiality of language in a new light by arguing that everyday objects such as kitchen utensils and wardrobes can be seen as deliberate and conscious collections that are entangled with speakers’ multilingual repertoires, subjectivities and embodied agencies. Clothes stored away in one’s wardrobe, or ordinary kitchen utensils reveal themselves as the site where multilinguals’ complex biographies and ‘jigsaw repertoires’ (Blommaert & Backus, 2013) can be traced and made sense of. Such a view of language sees the construction of subjectivities as both situated and relational. Situated because subjectivities are firmly anchored in embodied chronotopic continuums (Busch, 2017), relational because they align to a post-human approach to subjectivity (Pennycook, 2018) that conceives it as the confederation of different types of human and post-human agencies. Drawing on a study of 6 personal collections of ordinary objects, this paper investigates to what extent personal collections can be read as a ‘laboratory’ for multilingual practices, where multilingual agencies are played out in relation to time–space coordinates and the materiality of the self.

摘要

直到最近，物质文化在语言中的作用还很少被研究或被视为语言使用所处的环境（Aronin et al., 2018）。本文从新的角度审视语言的物质性，认为厨房用具和衣柜等日常物品可以被视为与说话者的多语言曲目、主体性和具体机构纠缠在一起的有意和有意识的收藏。存放在衣橱里的衣服，或普通的厨房用具，都是可以追溯和理解多语种复杂传记和“拼图剧目”（Blommaert & Backus，2013）的场所。这种语言观点认为主体性的建构既是情境性的，也是关系性的。定位是因为主观性牢固地锚定在具体的时间连续体中（Busch，2017 年），相关性是因为它们与后人类的主观性方法相一致（Pennycook，2018），将其视为不同类型的人类和后人类机构的联盟。本文基于对 6 件普通物品的个人收藏的研究，调查了个人收藏在多大程度上可以被解读为多语言实践的“实验室”，多语言机构在时空坐标和物质性的关系中发挥作用。自己。