Language, Race, and Negotiation of Identity
Author : Benjamin H. Bailey
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin H. Bailey
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : John Taggart Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317641493
Len Gregory is a law school student. As part of his elite law school's community outreach programme, he finds himself in a local high school several times a week passing on his own legal knowledge to the students in a course he teaches entitled Street Law. This book shows that passing on legal knowledge is not the only thing Len is doing in Street Law. He is also trying to get his students to talk and argue about the law in the same way that he does. Len talks about legal matters using hypothetical, speculative scenarios played out by generic people - if people occur at all in his scenarios. The students, meanwhile, recount anecdotes inhabited by real people doing things in the real world. This book describes how Len and the Street Law students negotiate Len's language promotion project scheme, that is, how the students go along with or resist Len's promotion. The consequences of this negotiation are high: the abstract/speculative inquiry style promoted by Len carries social value - to be able to talk as Len does is to be able to talk as powerful members of society talk, and Len is offering the Street Law students access to that social capital. However, this book shows how the Street Law students identify abstract/speculative inquiry as being the talk of the (elite, white) Other - not, in other words, a way of talk that, by and large, utters their social identity. The book examines this negotiation and tension between learning economically powerful ways of talking in the larger social marketplace and maintaining an authentic local social identity.
Author : Carmen Fought
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139458175
What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity, exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it. Drawing on research from a range of ethnic groups around the world, it shows how language contributes to the social and psychological processes involved in the formation of ethnic identity, exploring both the linguistic features of ethnic language varieties and also the ways in which language is used by different ethnic groups. Complete with discussion questions and a glossary, Language and Ethnicity will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, as well as anybody interested in ethnic issues, language and education, inter-ethnic communication, and the relationship between language and identity.
Author : Eid Mohamed
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443862037
Who Defines Me: Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature is a collection of insightful articles that represent an interdisciplinary study of identity. The articles start from the premise that identity is, and always has been, unstable and mutable; which is to say that identity is constructed and deconstructed and reconstructed – only to be deconstructed and reconstructed again, in turn to be deconstructed and reconstructed (and so on ad infinitum). Time and place are variables. So, too – as Who Defines Me underscores – are ethnicity, religion, politics and power, race and color, nationality, gender, culture, language, and socio-economic status. With all of these variables in mind, Who Defines Me focuses on language and literature as the portal through which identity is explored. The overarching rubrics under which the explorations are conducted are Arabs and Muslims, race identity in America, and language identity.
Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853596469
This volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable.
Author : Jeff Lesser
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822322924
A comparative study of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Chinese, Japanese, and Arabs who have contributed to Brazil's diverse mix.
Author : Uju Anya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317402715
*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award* Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "transformative socialization": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves as they collaboratively construct and negotiate race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class identities. Uju Anya’s study follows African American college students learning Portuguese in Afro-Brazilian communities, and their journeys in learning to do and speak blackness in Brazil. Video-recorded interactions, student journals, interviews, and writing assignments show how multiple intersecting identities are enacted and challenged in second language learning. Thematic, critical, and conversation analyses describe ways black Americans learn to speak their material, ideological, and symbolic selves in Portuguese and how linguistic action reproduces or resists power and inequity. The book addresses key questions on how learners can authentically and effectively participate in classrooms and target language communities to show that black students' racialized identities and investments in these communities greatly influence their success in second language learning and how successful others perceive them to be.
Author : Ruthellen Josselson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199732078
In our increasingly complex, globalized world, people often carry conflicting psychosocial identities. This volume considers individuals who are navigating across racial minority or majority status, various cultural expectations and values, gender identities, and roles. The authors explore how people bridge loyalties and identifications.
Author : Mary Bucholtz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139495097
In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - Bucholtz shows how white youth use a wealth of linguistic resources, from social labels to slang, from Valley Girl speech to African American English, to position themselves in the school's racialized social order. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a multiracial urban California high school, the book also demonstrates how European American teenagers talk about race when discussing interracial friendship and difference, narrating racialized fear and conflict, and negotiating their own ethnoracial classification. The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities, it will be welcomed by researchers and students in linguistics, anthropology, ethnic studies and education.
Author : Ronald Schmidt
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439906092
An engaging discussion about the use of English and other languages in the United States.