However, the question "what exactly is being indexed here" is hard to answer, in the sense that, apart from the apparent clash of frame, the student's turns may be said to index a range of possible identity attributes (e.g. an opposition to a French-speaking identity altogether while recognising the political need to concede up to a point, a preference for a purely utilitarian use of French, resisting schooling but resorting to code economies as a strategic vehicle, etc.). Thus, what contextualisation brings to the analysis of indexical meaning relationships is precisely that it opens up a space for recognising the indeterminacies of situated practices of identity performance and ascription in a way which renders them irreducible both in interaction and in analysis.