Abstract
In this conference it will be discussed how participants perform, experience, and are perceived by others to take on different personas across sociolinguistic contexts.  Drawing from research with Luso-descendants in France, the bilingual daughters of Portuguese migrants, the lecturer   shows how participants tell oral narratives in their two languages, in ways that establish them as different, locally recognizable "types" of people. With these materials, tools for examining how people display multiple, culturally recognizable types of identities within and across narrative contexts will be described.


Bio
Michele Koven is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  in the Departments of Communication and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from the Committee in Human Development, at the University of Chicago. Michele has conducted research on the relationships between identity and language practices in migrant communities, with a particular interest in how people use narrative to negotiate multiple relationships and identities.