Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual Couples: Gender Roles and Language Choices

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Olga Pahom (Lubbock Christian University, USA)

Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual Couples

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Gender Roles and Language Choices

Olga Pahom (Lubbock Christian University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
28 May 2026

Sociolinguistics; Bilingualism & multilingualism; Gender studies, gender groups

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has been on the rise in the United States, but the communication practices of such couples have remained understudied. Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores and describes the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each from different geographic and cultural backgrounds.

Based on more than 900 minutes of conversations and interviews, the book offers a data-driven analysis of the ways in which language choices and gender performance shape the stories, conversations, and identities of bilingual couples, which in turn shape the social order of bilingual communities. Using a combination of methodologies to investigate how couples launch, tell, and respond to each other’s stories, the book identifies seven main factors that the couples see as primary determinants of their choice of English and Spanish during couple communication. The use of conversation analysis highlights the couples’ own practices and perceptions of their language choices, demonstrating how the private language decisions of bilingual couples enable them to negotiate a place in the larger culture, shape the future of bilingualism, and establish a couple identity through shared linguistic and cultural habits.

By: Olga Pahom (Lubbock Christian University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781350405172
ISBN 10: 1350405175
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 28 May 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olga Pahom is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Studies and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Lubbock Christian University, USA.

Reviews for Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual Couples: Gender Roles and Language Choices

""This meticulous study of Spanish-English bilingual couples' conversational story-telling shows how the middle ground in intercultural communication is found when people talk and listen to each other in everyday interactions."" --Ingrid Piller, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia ""This book presents a detailed study of how bilingual couples use their languages in contexts of storytelling. It draws on Conversation Analysis to understand how couples talk draws on their language repertoires in sophisticated ways in telling stories and reveals that there are gendered differences in their language use. The book offers new insights into both storytelling and gender studies."" --Tony Liddicoat, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK