Abstract This study investigates how immigrant workers construct their identities and social relations by telling stories in multilingual work environments. My main interest lies in naturally occurring and interactionally achieved stories, from the participants’ day-to-day interaction at a workplace. Data were collected from the informal interaction among employees at a nursing home in Honolulu. Positioning itself against studies that focus on linguistic competence of workers and potential problems of miscommunication and exclusion, this study highlights how employees draw upon shared cultural resources for a more inclusive interaction. The analysis of multi-party storytelling shows the dynamic nature of the multilingual interaction, and how the participants achieve their interactional goals in their specific spatial contexts. It shows how the multilingualism varies in the local realization and how the participants put their efforts into finding common ground for belonging, achieving social inclusion, and negotiating mutual understanding with respect to their languages and cultures.

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讲故事和分享文化以建立身份和团结

摘要 本研究调查了移民工人如何通过在多语言工作环境中讲故事来构建他们的身份和社会关系。我的主要兴趣在于参与者在工作场所的日常互动中自然发生和互动实现的故事。数据来自檀香山一家疗养院员工之间的非正式互动。本研究将自己定位于关注工人语言能力以及沟通不畅和排斥的潜在问题的研究，强调了员工如何利用共享的文化资源进行更具包容性的互动。对多方讲故事的分析显示了多语言交互的动态特性，以及参与者如何在其特定空间环境中实现其交互目标。