CASLC talk by Dr Ignacio Satti
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| Type | Seminar or talk |
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| Dates | 2025/10/15 - 2025/11/15 |
| Link | https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/caslc/home?authuser=0 |
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| Tweet | Dr Ignacio Satti to give CASLC talk on "Dialectical diversity in social interaction", 14 Nov, 11-12.30 UK time. Register here: https://forms.gle/n5BkrqkrLE9ikJo96 |
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CASLC talk by Dr Ignacio Satti: Dialectal Diversity in Social Interaction: Insights from Spanish Interdialectal Encounters in Diaspora:
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The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication at York is delighted to host Dr Ignacio Satti from the University of Milan. Dr Satti will present a talk entitled, "Dialectal Diversity in Social Interaction: Insights from Spanish Interdialectal Encounters in Diaspora". Those already on the CASLC guest mailing list will receive receive a zoom link via google calendar. If you’re not on our mailing list, you can register by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/n5BkrqkrLE9ikJo96. If you’re unable to use the registration form, please contact: merran.toerien@york.ac.uk
Abstract: Dialectal variation is a pervasive feature of language, yet its role in the organization of social interaction has only recently begun to receive systematic attention (Raymond, 2018). While dialectology and sociolinguistics have long examined dialectal differences, approaching this issue from the perspective of Conversation Analysis raises a different question: how and when do participants themselves orient to dialectal variation as relevant for the design of their turns-at-talk? This talk explores that question through naturally occurring encounters between Spanish speakers in diaspora. Diasporic contexts provide fertile ground for observing dialectal diversity in interaction, as speakers from varied regional backgrounds come into contact in their everyday conversations. Drawing on video-recorded interactions among Spanish speakers in Germany, I focus on how participants manage lexical items that become (potentially) problematic for mutual understanding. Although failing to recognize certain words is common in some contexts, such as L1–L2 interactions, Spanish dialects are generally considered mutually intelligible (Merino & Grijelmo, 2019). Precisely for this reason, episodes of lexical misunderstanding (such as not recognizing a term for an everyday item like clothing or food) can surface unexpectedly, offering valuable opportunities to observe how speakers handle linguistic diversity in situ. As illustrative cases, I examine responses to other-initiated repair (Schegloff et al., 1977) and try-marking sequences (Sacks & Schegloff, 1979), showing how participants manage understanding problems while simultaneously negotiating intelligibility, identity, and dialectal normativity. Ultimately, the talk highlights how speakers orient to dialectal diversity not only as a practical problem but also as an interactional resource, and argues that CA’s micro-level perspective can shed new light on broader issues of pluricentrism, diasporic identities, and language teaching.
