Resumen de Discurso e identidad: grupos originarios de México en Carolina del Norte
Liliana Paredes, D. Kyle Danielson
The arrival of Mexican immigrants to North Carolina brought a new social and ethnic profile to the city of Durham. However, what has formerly been seen principally as a Spanish-speaking presence now ceases to be a monochromatic product when one notices that a significant number of members of the population represent an ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity that is all but invisible to the untrained eye. This work examines the discursive manifestations of immigrants of indigenous origin whose second language is Spanish, and whose interactive sociolinguistic space is reconfigured when they must incorporate other ethnicities and social groups into their new interactive context. This research seeks to respond to the question of how speakers from different social and ethno linguistic groups manifest cultural and ethnic differences, as well as conflicts and social inequities in their discourse within their own group. In this article we posit that through their discourse, speakers from different ethnic origins negotiate their identity and at the same time express their perceptions in terms of relationships of power and dominance. This research is based on recorded conversations with speakers of Chatino, Nahuatl, and Otomí origin.
