Between phatic communion and coping tactic: Casamançais multilingual practices

摘要: This paper enquires into the role of multilingual practices in conviviality shared, socially and culturally mixed localities. I ask how Casamancais use diverse repertoires to get by everyday life both Casamance, Senegal Catalonia, Spain. The concept stresses fragile, dynamic processes characteristic ways living together with maintained difference. argue that minimal, but diversified language practices, which compose linguistically repertoires, are central facilitating among local residents. Minimal interactions ‘small talk’, or phatic communion, cushion potentially conflictual socio-cultural differences inequalities. Firstly, will evaluate discourses on contexts. Second, critically explore reasons for quality widespread repertoires. conclude facilitate communion sometimes playfully as part coping strategies situations structural forces determine choices be more successful than others. process spans these aspects describing everdynamic ever-fragile