OV constructions and stance in the Spanish spoken by Ecuadorian Quichuas in Cali (Colombia)] Enoncés de type OV et positionnements sociaux dans l’espagnol parlé par les Quichuas équatoriens à Cali (Colombie) En Fr

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Members of the indigenous Quichuan minority population living in Cali within an asymmetrical contact setting usually make use of linguistic marked elements from two varieties of Spanish which they speak: Andean Spanish and Spanish from Cali. One of these marked linguistic elements is OV syntactic constructions, highly frequent in Andean Spanish. A sequential conversation analysis shows that when Quichuas in Cali interact with someone outside the group, they may express differentiation through the use of OV constructions. Construed as a social positioning, this differentiation takes place in an act of stance (Du Bois, 2002, 2007; Jaffe, 2009; Johnstone, 2009; Kiesling, 2011) which arises with an evaluation of a referent in the discourse situation by a speaker, then triggers a social positioning that finally leads to a disalignment vis-à-vis another speaker. This article discusses the social effects of linguistic marked forms such as OV constructions in an understudied area (Cali, Colombia) within a field of research (Spanish-Quichua contact) that usually focuses on contact issues from a typological perspective.