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Linguistic Landscape
Vol. 7:1 (2021) ► pp.37–59

Homescape

Agentic space for transmigrant families multisensory discourse of identity

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This article presents the redefined concept of the homescape as space where transnational, newly arrived, and settled families can provide agency for their identity framing through multisensory discourse resources. The study investigated the experiential, non-interactional multisensory discourse resources in the homescape. The homescape extends from the Linguistic Landscape and houses temporal and spatial components, which occur over time. The yearlong ethnographic case study of three Nepalese families (two transmigrant Ghurkha families and one immigrant family) included 150 hours of observational data triangulated with qualitative interviews. The study posed two questions: How do transmigrant and transnational families find capacity for agency in the homescape? How do families use experiential multisensory discourse resources embedded in homescape to facilitate identity framing? Findings highlighted that experiential multisensory discourse resources are threads of identity in the home that have yet to be fully recognized as research evidence by ethnographers in the home context.

Keywords: homescape, multisensory discourse resource, flows, identity framing, agency, experiential, transnational, transmigrant, decolonialise
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 1.2Ethnographic marginalized context
  • 2.1Flows of identity framing in the scape
  • 2.2Multisensory threads of identity
  • 3.1Defining homescape
  • 3.2Extending past linguistic landscapes
  • 3.3Rationale for homescape
  • 4.Ethnographic case study
  • 5.1Evidence of homescape as an agentic space
  • 5.2Multisensory discourse resources in the homescape
  • 5.3Emotional sense memories
  • 6.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 24 July 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.19019.boi
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