Abstract Drawing from a yearlong ethnographic study, this paper examines spatial deictics and verb tense use in conversation and instructional activities in a family literacy class at a Bay Area Public Library. More specifically, we employ discourse analytic tools to document how spatiotemporal coordinates are never solely product of cognitive calculation but always also entangled with emotions. In addition to enacting their referentiality with respect to places and moments in time, spatial and temporal indexical terms served to position participants within a discursive paradigm of migration, a chronotope imbued by nostalgia. We discuss how such discursive positioning constructs students’ identities as diasporic, their being in the here-and-now predicated on their being from elsewhere, and their being here-and-there simultaneous and coextensive.

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“那里没有”：家庭识字班上的空间指示词、动词时态和怀旧情绪

摘要 本文借鉴了一项为期一年的民族志研究，考察了湾区公共图书馆家庭识字班的对话和教学活动中的空间指示词和动词时态的使用。更具体地说，我们使用话语分析工具来记录时空坐标如何不仅是认知计算的产物，而且总是与情绪纠缠在一起。除了在时间中的地点和时刻制定他们的参考性之外，空间和时间索引术语还用于将参与者置于迁移的话语范式中，这是一种充满怀旧情绪的时空。我们讨论了这种话语定位如何构建学生的散居身份，他们在此时此地的存在取决于他们来自别处的存在，以及他们在此时此地的同时和共同存在。