Carolina, Karen; https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0813-6857; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0207602889742067
Resumen:
This study investigated how individuals residing in non-native language contexts negotiate
their identity, understood here as a semiotic effect of narrative processes aimed at organizing
world experiences and achieving recognizability within a shared symbolic field. Grounded in
semiotic-cultural psychology, this study analyzes the trajectories of four participants
undergoing migratory processes who utilize a non-native language in their daily lives. This is
a qualitative study based on a microgenetic analysis of narratives produced during individual
comprehensive interviews. The results demonstrate that the migratory experience implies a
reorganization of the conditions under which identity is constituted, shaping what is termed a
process of proculturation. It was observed that the perceived symbolic insufficiency of the
non-native language to express affective nuances generates tensions that reinforce
identification with the native language and cultural context of origin, particularly with "being
Brazilian." In this sense, the valorization of Brazilianness occurs in a situated manner,
functioning as a strategy for the continuity of the self within the migratory context, while not
necessarily maintaining the same function in the original context, thereby reinforcing the
relational and dynamic nature of identity.