Translanguaging as a resource for meaning-making at multilingual construction sites

Abstract In this article we investigate spoken professional interaction at construction sites in Sweden, where workers from Poland, Ukraine and Estonia are temporarily employed as carpenters, ground kitchen installers. We study how the use resources associated with different languages these mobilized along embodied for meaning-making. The analysis aims investigating what social space construct by going between or beyond linguistic structures, defined theory of translanguaging. is based on Linguistic Ethnography Conversation Analysis used close analysis. focus instances translanguaging, such Swedish-sounding institutionalized keywords, practices receptive multilingualism search communicative overlaps repertoires. findings busy show that stratifying aspect gives some a voice organization, while others remain silent. Hence, it primarily professionals functioning team leaders, who talk to occupational categories languages. data provide an opportunity translanguaging its transformative power relation settings linguistically diverse, but also strictly hierarchical.