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TheLanguage of Adult Immigrants : Agency in the Making / Elizabeth R. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Perspectives on Language and EducationPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783092048
  • 9781783092055
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.0086/9120973 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1128.A2 M5523 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Agency in Second Language Research -- 2. Theories of Agency and Language Learning -- 3. Analyzing Agency Constructs in Interview Discourse -- 4. Agency and Responsibility: Positioning Self in Subject-Predicate Constructs -- 5. Stance and Subjectivity: Evaluating Agentive Capacity -- 6. Performing Agency and Responsibility in Reported Speech -- 7. Local Production of Ideology and Discursive Agency -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Agency in Second Language Research -- 2. Theories of Agency and Language Learning -- 3. Analyzing Agency Constructs in Interview Discourse -- 4. Agency and Responsibility: Positioning Self in Subject-Predicate Constructs -- 5. Stance and Subjectivity: Evaluating Agentive Capacity -- 6. Performing Agency and Responsibility in Reported Speech -- 7. Local Production of Ideology and Discursive Agency -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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