This article examines the intersection of ethnicity, class and gender in situated acts of identification of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK through analysis of stop aspiration. Discourse analysis demonstrates that the migrants differently scaled and positioned themselves and others in transnational timespace despite their shared background. This was also accompanied by various orientations to available linguistic resources. Quantitative methods show that both ideology and the language system influenced aspiration with adherence to ‘standard’ Polish norms falling along a continuum from nationally-oriented to ‘Cosmopolitan’ speakers. Female Cosmopolitans relied on English-like VOTs with a tendency to signal (dis)alignment from Poland/the current locality. The study draws attention to the bodily semiotics of self-presentation highlighting the role of phonetic realisations in contemporary processes of value attribution.

本文通过对中止愿望的分析，考察了在识别英国波兰裔移民时所处的种族，阶级和性别的交集。话语分析表明，尽管移民背景相同，但他们在跨国时空中的规模和定位不同。这还伴随着对可用语言资源的各种适应。定量方法表明，意识形态和语言系统都对波兰人的志向产生了影响，因为他们坚持遵循“标准的”波兰规范，而这一规范是从面向国家的演讲者到“国际化”的演讲者的连续体。女性世界主义者依赖英语般的VOT，倾向于从波兰/当前所在地发出信号（失调）。