“…our linguistic repertoire can no longer be imagined as isolated categories; instead, it is a “chorus of voices” (Tarone, 2007, p. 842), representing the sum of our listening experiences with friends, families, and colleagues. This transforms speech production from being just the intersection of our physiology (e.g., vocal tract size, etc.) with our socialization patterns (Labov, 2006), into a realm where our speech re-enacts and reanimates all the conversations that we’ve entertained over our lifetime. Since our physiology is primarily determined by our ancestral lineages, just as Gibson theorized earlier, our interactions become the embodiment of the lands that we’ve known and the people who have populated them.”
My entire entry can be read here: http://bild-lida.ca/blog/uncategorized/turn-on-tune-in-and-drop-out-by-rhonda-chung/
Audio version: https://soundcloud.com/bild_lida/turn-on-tune-in-drop-out
BILD is a critical sociolinguistic blog started by members of McGill University's Department of Integrated Studies in Education with the goal of discussing our language experiences in the multilingual setting of Montreal.