Abstract This article explores aspects of second language socialization with respect to same gender relationships formed in the queer spaces of Siem Reap, a major tourist city in Cambodia. In order to explore the processes of socialization that emerged from ethnographic fieldwork in this setting as a key factor informing these relationship practices, I present an analysis of narrative accounts from interviews with local men. These English speaking Cambodian men describe how their linguistic knowledge (metapragmatic awareness), understanding and participation in these relationship practices developed through their personal engagement in the multilingual queer spaces of the city; spaces in which they meet and befriend tourists from the global north. Departing to some extent from widely espoused notions of identity and community in second language socialization research, this queer analysis seeks to engage more fully with socialization as it relates to the semiotic production of space/time. In this way, I account for how a queering of the language socialization paradigm may afford us greater analytical and interpretive purchase when conducting language research on social practices in the margins.

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边缘地区的第二语言社交：质疑范式

摘要本文探讨了在柬埔寨主要旅游城市暹粒的同志空间中形成的关于同性关系的第二语言社会化的各个方面。为了探讨在这种情况下民族志田野调查中出现的社会化过程，作为告知这些关系实践的关键因素，我对来自当地男人的访谈中的叙述叙述进行了分析。这些英语为英语的柬埔寨人描述了他们在城市中使用多种语言的同志空间中的个人知识如何发展，了解和参与这些关系实践；他们会面并结识来自全球北部的游客的空间。奇怪的分析在某种程度上与第二语言社会化研究中广泛使用的身份和社区概念背道而驰，因为它与时空的符号学有关，因此试图更充分地参与社会化。通过这种方式，我解释了在对边缘社会实践进行语言研究时，对语言社会化范式的质疑可能如何为我们提供更多的分析和解释性购买。