This paper contributes to disentangling hybridity from assumptions about marginality, resistance and the dissolution of boundaries in sociolinguistic scholarship. To do so, it examines how speakers make certain types of hybrid identities (im)possible through their discursive practices of scaling. Focusing on post-soviet, Central Asian migrants in the United States, I demonstrate how their discourses on ethnolinguistic identity rely on multiple scalar perspectives, which (re)make boundaries in different ways that (dis)allow for hybrid identities to emerge. I show that speakers engage in such discourses in order to navigate their marginal transnational positionings, and that their emergent hybrid identities do not ensure resistance to national norms or transcend categorical boundaries. These empirical observations, I argue, have implications for conceptualizing the relationship between power, marginality and hybrid forms more broadly.

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社会语言混合的（不可能）可能性：后苏联跨国生活中的权力和规模

本文有助于从社会语言学学术中关于边缘性、阻力和边界消解的假设中解开杂种。为此，它研究了说话者如何通过他们的扩展性话语实践使某些类型的混合身份（不可能）成为可能。关注美国的后苏联中亚移民，我展示了他们关于民族语言身份的话语如何依赖于多种标量视角，这些视角以不同的方式（重新）划分界限，从而（不）允许混合身份的出现。我表明，演讲者参与此类话语是为了驾驭他们的边缘跨国定位，并且他们新兴的混合身份并不能确保对国家规范的抵抗或超越绝对界限。我认为，这些经验观察