Eleonore Guy
Research Area
About
I’m a PhD student in linguistic anthropology and I hold a master’s degree from Universite de Montreal. My research focuses on Central Asia. I combine a constructivist approach to linguistic anthropology and the critical fields of feminist theory and migration studies. I seek to analyze discourses within their ethnographic context and to understand how they are connected to global structural dynamics. My dissertation seeks to explores how language choices between Kazakh and Russian intersect with gendered migrations in Kazakhstan. This project builds on my master’s thesis which focused on linguistic ideologies supporting codeswitching and languaging practices in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital.
UBC Supervisor: Dr. Alexia Bloch & Patrick Moore
Committee member: Dr. Shannon Ward
Publications
Guy, Eleonore. 2024. Performer une identite translinguistique: Perspectives intertextuelles sur l’ecologie linguistique d’Astana. Master thesis. Montreal: Universite de Montreal. https://hdl.handle.net/1866/33978
Guy, Eleonore. 2023. Parler russe en ex-URSS: L’indexicalite du parler quotidien au Kazakhstan. Conference prepared for VocUM: Interdisciplinary conference dedicated to languages, Université de Montreal, November 10.
Guy, Eleonore. 2023. Seeing Astana through its speakers: Intertextual perspectives on a translinguistic community. Conference prepared for Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 20.
Guy, Eleonore. 2023. Performing identity and resistance through language choices: The reindexicalizations of Kazakh in Astana. Conference prepared for Semiotic Anthropology Conference, University of Pennsylvania, May 13.
Awards
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctorat (CGS D), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRCH), 2024
Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), University of British Columbia, 2024
Fellowship for master’s in research B1Z, Fond de Recherche du Quebec – Societes et Cultures (FRQSC), 2022
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master (CGS M), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRCH), 2022