In this article, I aim to shed light on the linguistic and discursive practices entailed in historical meaning‐making—that is, the various ways in which social groups perceive the past and how those perceptions inflect the interactional present. Specifically, I present ethnographic data collected at a day center for Spanish seniors outside of Paris, focusing on interactions among a group of the center's members upon their visit to a museum exhibition documenting the Parisian bidonvilles [shantytowns] in which many of them lived after they migrated from Spain in the 1960s, over 40 years earlier. As they engage with one another and their guide, participants display and enact different modes of knowing the historical content of the exhibition. Drawing on Bakhtin's (1981) concept of the chronotope, I show how these modes of knowing the past may be recruited in ideological processes of affiliation and distinction. For the transnational migrants in later life who populate this article, such chronotopic calibration is a vital means of making sense of the past and establishing forms of belonging in the present.*

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回顾巴黎的比顿维尔：跨国移民的历史性和权威

在本文中，我旨在阐明历史意义创造所涉及的语言和话语实践，即，社会群体对过去的看法以及这些看法如何影响现在的相互作用。具体来说，我介绍了在巴黎以外的西班牙老年人的日间中心收集的人种学数据，重点介绍了该中心一组成员访问记录有巴黎人比顿维尔博物馆展览的博物馆之间的互动许多棚屋居住在1960年代，距此40年前。当他们彼此和他们的向导互动时，参与者展示并采取不同的方式了解展览的历史内容。我借鉴巴赫金（Bakhtin，1981）的年代记概念，展示了如何在隶属和区分的意识形态过程中吸收这些了解过去的方式。对于在本文中充斥着晚年生活的跨国移民而言，这种变时标定是了解过去并确立当下归属形式的重要手段。*