“I’m kind of agnostic”

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI:10.1075/aral.19083.per

Nirukshi Perera

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Abstract

Abstract Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their ethnoreligious community. This paper draws from an ethnography in a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia. I present Sri Lankan teenage migrants’ discourse from their faith classroom to elucidate processes of belief positioning. In working out their emergent, and provisional, faith identities, the students deploy mainly Tamil and English linguistic features in their belief narratives. Flexible languaging complements their “syncretic acts” – the practice of drawing on diverse ideologies and experiences (outside the boundaries of a particular religion) to form personalized beliefs. Translanguaging thus facilitates the expression of circumspect, nuanced, and non-traditional interpretations of their heritage religion. Understanding such processes of belief positioning can help societies and institutions to work towards migrant youth inclusion.

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“我有点不可知论”

摘要将非西方宗教移植到西方国家，导致第一代移民试图在截然不同的背景下传播信仰。尤其是在青少年时期，第二代移民要在一个宗教和意识形态多样的社会中调解他们的个人宗教信仰，并就其民族宗教社区的成员资格进行谈判。本文取材于澳大利亚一座泰米尔印度教寺庙的民族志。我展示了斯里兰卡青少年移民在信仰课堂上的话语，以阐明信仰定位的过程。在确定他们的新兴和临时信仰身份时，学生们在信仰叙事中主要运用泰米尔语和英语的语言特征。灵活的语言补充了他们的“融合行为”——利用不同的意识形态和经验（在特定宗教的边界之外）形成个性化信仰的实践。因此，翻译有助于表达对其传统宗教的谨慎、细致入微和非传统的解释。了解这种信仰定位过程可以帮助社会和机构努力实现移民青年的包容性。

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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

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2.70

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the preeminent journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). ARAL is a peer reviewed journal that promotes scholarly discussion and contemporary understandings of language-related matters with a view to impacting on real-world problems and debates. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research on language/s in educational, professional, institutional and community settings. ARAL welcomes national and international submissions presenting research related to any of the major sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics as well as transdisciplinary studies. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: · Analysis of discourse and interaction · Assessment and evaluation · Bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education · Corpus linguistics · Cognitive linguistics · Language, culture and identity · Language maintenance and revitalization · Language planning and policy · Language teaching and learning, including specific languages and TESOL · Pragmatics · Research design and methodology · Second language acquisition · Sociolinguistics · Language and technology · Translating and interpreting.