David Divita

David Divita is a sociocultural linguist and linguistic anthropologist who specializes in Spanish- and French-speaking people and places. His interests include the linguistic and semiotic dimensions of age and aging; the experience of belonging, displacement and long-term multilingualism; and the politics of memory—in particular as these phenomena operate among populations with national and affective attachments to contemporary Spain and France. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Spanish immigrants in France who arrived in the 1960s and are now in later life. He is also currently investigating the relationships among queer subjectivity, patterns of consumption, and the use of English in French gay-lifestyle media; language ideologies and discursive practices that concern domestic service in the U.S.; and the role of desire in language learning. He has published articles in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, the International Journal of Multilingualism and Critical Discourse Studies.