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Several scholars have raised the question of the effect of language of response, not out of interest in how “self” varies for the same person across languages, but as an inquiry into the effect of instrument language in cross-cultural research more generally. One should not assume that participants will always answer in the same way, when queried in different languages (Kemmelmeier and Cheng 2004; Marin et al. 1983; Ralston, Cunniff, and Gustafson 1995; Yang and Bond 1980). Yang and Bond (1980) found that when given a written, forced-choice questionnaire about attitudes, Chinese-English bilinguals gave consistently different answers when responding in Chinese from when responding in English.

Attention to Local Language Ideologies and Contexts When much of the performance may be conducted implicitly, how does the analyst know what personas an individual is performing? Recognizing which personas bilinguals are enacting is best done in ethnographic context to access local cultural knowledge of how a way of speaking indexically evokes/invokes a particular persona for people in the bilinguals’ multiple communities of practice. Part of this local cultural knowledge is embedded in systems of beliefs or ideologies of language that indexically link ways of speaking and identities (Schieffelin, Woolard, and Kroskrity 1998; Silverstein 1979, 1998).

However the mechanism through which language-change triggers “personality change” is not always entirely clear. Similarly, as scholars typically focus on the referential content, there is scant attention to the actual ways bilinguals speak in each language. These studies typically approach personality, self-concept, values, attitudes, and so forth as underlying content. Few examine how bilinguals use discursive form as the very medium through which they indexically display these phenomena. Therefore scholars are noting a pragmatic phenomenon—how language-change plays a role in creatively transforming context—without actually treating the speech produced by bilinguals as discourse to be analyzed in context.

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