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Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts
Adrian Blackledge,Aneta Pavlenko +1 more
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New theoretical approaches to the study of identity negotiation in multilingual contexts have been proposed by as discussed by the authors, including the making of an American, negotiation of identities at the turn of the 20th century, Aneta Pavlenko constructions of identity in political discourse in multi-ilingual Britain, Adrian Blackledge negotiating between bourge and racaille - Verlan as youth identity practice in suburban Paris, Meredith Doran (Pennsylvania State University) Black Deaf or Deaf Black? being Black and Deaf in Britain, Melissa James and Bencie Woll (City UniversityAbstract:
New theoretical approaches to the study of negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts "The making of an American" - negotiation of identities at the turn of the 20th century, Aneta Pavlenko constructions of identity in political discourse in multilingual Britain, Adrian Blackledge negotiating between bourge and racaille - Verlan as youth identity practice in suburban Paris, Meredith Doran (Pennsylvania State University) Black Deaf or Deaf Black? being Black and Deaf in Britain, Melissa James and Bencie Woll (City University, London) mothers and mother tongue - perspectives on self-construction by mothers of Pakistani heritage, Jean Mills (University of Birmingham) the politics of identity, representation, and the discourses of self-identification, Frances Giampapa (University of Toronto) Alice doesn't live here anymore - foreign language learning and identity reconstruction, Celeste Kinginger (Pennsylvania State University) intersections of literacy and construction of social identities, Benedicta Egbo (University of Windsor) multilingual writers and the struggle for voice in academic discourse, Suresh Canagarajah (City University of New York) identity and language use - the politics of speaking ESL in schools, Jennifer Miller (University of Queensland) sending mixed messages - language minority education at a Japanese public elementary school, Yasuko Kanno (University of Washington)read more
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Heritage Language Maintenance and Cultural Identity Formation: The Case of a Turkish Saturday School in New York City.
TL;DR: In this article, the role of a Turkish Saturday school in the United States in helping students maintain the Turkish language and form a sense of Turkish cultural identity was investigated, and the data were analyzed using Gee's Discourse analysis framework, specifically his six building tasks.
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Young people's languaging and social positioning. Chaining in "bilingual" educational settings in Sweden
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine languaging in a bilingual school setting and explore young people's doing of multilingualism as well as social positioning in and through the everyday social practices where literacy is salient.
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Negotiating the Multi in Multilingualism and Multiliteracies: Undergraduate Students in Vancouver, Canada
TL;DR: This article conducted a qualitative study with eight multilingual undergraduate university students in which the participants described their complex multilingualism and literacy practices in interviews and provided samples of their formal and less formal literacies for analysis.
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Translating Faith: Field Narratives as a Means of Dialogue in Collaborative Ethnographic Research
TL;DR: In this article, a group of researchers from diverse cultures teach and learn from each other through the use of field narratives in four faith settings in London, UK, and show how researchers learn to reflect upon their own research site, compare it with those of others, and, ultimately, become more aware of their own.
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Beyond language: class, social categorisation and academic achievement in a Catalan high school
Eva Codó,Adriana Patiño-Santos +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the sociolinguistic situation of a multilingual secondary school in the Barcelona metropolitan area and examined the language practices of both students and educators, concluding that language is an index of a process of constructing the school as "different" and the school body as non-academic.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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Language and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu,John B. Thompson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the economy of language exchange and its relation to political power is discussed. But the authors focus on the production and reproduction of Legitimate language and do not address its application in the theory of political power.
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Outline of a theory of practice
TL;DR: Pierre Bourdieu develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood, able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world.