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| Autor/in | Miller, Elizabeth R. |
|---|---|
| Titel | Agency, Language Learning, and Multilingual Spaces |
| Quelle | In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 31 (2012) 4, S.441-468 (28 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0167-8507 |
| Schlagwörter | Immigrants; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Ideology; Multilingualism; Language Usage; Personal Narratives; Interviews; Power Structure |
| Abstract | This article explores the notion of agency in language learning and use as discursively, historically, and socially mediated. It further explores how agency can be understood as variously enabled and constrained as individuals move from one cultural, linguistic, and/or geographical space to another. These explorations focus on how agency is constituted in language and interaction, and how the "agency of spaces" is both constituted by such interactions and constitutive of the kinds of linguistic acts deemed legitimate and desirable in such spaces. To that end, it analyzes how adult immigrants talk about themselves as (potential) actors with incumbent responsibilities in autobiographical accounts generated in research interviews. The interview topics considered for this study include accounts of learning English, early after interviewees' arrival in the United States, as well as their learning and use of non-English languages at their places of business. Using micro-analysis, this article investigates how they construct themselves as acting agentively, or not, in the locally contingent, co-constructed development of interview talk. It argues that some of these individuals have reconfigured the balance of power in their business spaces, with respect to language ideologies, by constituting them as legitimately multilingual, even as they conform to the dominant order by treating English as the unquestioned legitimated language for other spaces and uses. (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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