important discursive and social act because of its potential to contest current nation-
alist discourse and ideology of homogenous ethnic and national groups through ev-
eryday discourse. Furthermore, the construct of local identity can be essential for re-
viving communities such as Stari Grad because its discourse allows the speakers to
construct a sense of continuity with the diverse and shared practices from before the
war, signaling a possibility for their future coexistence.
Acknowledgments
I thank Shari Kendall, Deborah Tannen, and Vanja Filipovic for their comments on
earlier drafts of this chapter.
NOTES
1. I use the term “Bosniak” to denote an ethnic group formerly referred to as Bosnian Muslims. “Stari
Grad” and “Livade” are pseudonyms for places referred to in this chapter. “Stari Grad” replaces the
name of the researched community, and “Livade” replaces the name of a neighboring region.
2. Except for mine, the names of the speakers and people they talk about have been changed.
3. In the original line “oni su po kuc
´
ama,” the preposition “po” (around) rather than “u” (in) is used to
describe the location of people as “in the houses.” This construct is found mostly in the spoken lan-
guage. Its use to specify the location of people as “in” the houses is a stylistic choice that allows the
speakers to signal another layer of meaning: the oddness of how the houses in the settlement were ac-
quired. That is, the newcomers have been “strewn around the houses,” inhabiting the property with-
out a legal order.
Transcription Conventions
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falling intonation
overlapping speech
no perceptible pause between utterances
{ } covert referent
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false start
,
continuing utterance
?
rising intonation
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