ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the investigation of one transnational community: a Spanish-language radio station in the greater Washington, DC, area and its participants, both listeners and practitioners. It shows language ideologies and language practices which linked with the construction of identities in that they represent respectively widely shared ideas on how people's use of language defines who they are and concrete ways of constructing identities in actual communication. The chapter discusses the language ideologies and language practices in Radio El Zol, focusing in particular on code-switching, translanguaging, and language-related negotiations and on English-teaching sessions on one of the shows. It shows how the study of language ideologies and practices leads to a better understanding of the composite identities and identity practices of transnational communities and their representative media. The chapter presents the Identities in social constructionist terms as stemming from social practices in that it is within concrete doings that people convey, negotiate, and construct different kinds of identities.
