Abstract Recent scholarship on language use has developed a resurgent interest in the complex interrelationship of language and materiality; given its longstanding investigation of both non-verbal communication and political economy, language socialization research is well-positioned to make important contributions to this investigation of language materiality. This paper advances such a project by demonstrating how the discursive processes of language socialization make the material affectively meaningful. Through an exploration of prompting interactions in cross-border conversations within transnational Salvadoran families, the paper elucidates how processes of material-affective semiosis produce subject positions that are made normative for some individuals, in this case, differentiating between migrant and non-migrant kin. Drawing out the role of materiality in such processes thus reveals how language socialization functions as a scale-making resource that turns the inequalities of transnational migration into constitutive features of family life.

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跨境语言社交

摘要最近关于语言使用的学者对语言和物质的复杂相互关系产生了浓厚的兴趣。鉴于长期以来对非语言交流和政治经济学的研究，语言社会化研究处于有利地位，可以为这种语言重要性研究做出重要贡献。本文通过演示语言社会化的话语过程如何使材料在情感上有意义，来推进这一项目。通过探索跨国萨尔瓦多家庭内部跨境对话中的互动互动，本文阐明了物质情感符号学的过程如何产生对某些个体具有规范性的主体地位，在这种情况下，区分了移民和非移民亲属。