Miller Elizabeth R.
Miller Elizabeth R. - The Language Of Adult Immigrants Agency In The Making - Paperback
Miller Elizabeth R. - The Language Of Adult Immigrants Agency In The Making - Paperback
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Description: This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory an approach that remains on the periphery of second language research. Though many scholars have drawn on poststructuralism to theorize learner identity in non - essentialist terms most have treated agency as an essential feature that belongs to or inheres in individuals. By contrast this work promotes a view of learner agency as inherently social and as performatively constituted in discursive practice. In developing a performativity approach to learner agency it builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on agency of spaces and language ideologies. Through the study of discourses produced in interviews this work explores how immigrant small business owners co - construct their theories of agency in relation to language learning and use. The analysis focuses on three discursive constructs produced in the interview talk subject - predicate constructs evaluative stance and reported speech and investigates their discursive effects in mobilizing ideologically normative performatively realized agentive selves.
Title: The Language Of Adult Immigrants Agency In The Making
Author(s): Miller Elizabeth R.
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781783092031
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 6/4/2014
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Category: Discourse Analysis
Description: This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory an approach that remains on the periphery of second language research. Though many scholars have drawn on poststructuralism to theorize learner identity in non - essentialist terms most have treated agency as an essential feature that belongs to or inheres in individuals. By contrast this work promotes a view of learner agency as inherently social and as performatively constituted in discursive practice. In developing a performativity approach to learner agency it builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on agency of spaces and language ideologies. Through the study of discourses produced in interviews this work explores how immigrant small business owners co - construct their theories of agency in relation to language learning and use. The analysis focuses on three discursive constructs produced in the interview talk subject - predicate constructs evaluative stance and reported speech and investigates their discursive effects in mobilizing ideologically normative performatively realized agentive selves.
Title: The Language Of Adult Immigrants Agency In The Making
Author(s): Miller Elizabeth R.
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781783092031
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 6/4/2014
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Category: Discourse Analysis
