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The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more generally and Arabic and identity in particular.
Split into three parts, covering ‘Identity and Variation’, ‘Identity and Politics’ and ‘Identity Globalisation and Diversity’, it is the first of its kind to offer such a perspective on identity, linking the social world to identity construction and including issues pertaining to our current political and social context, including Arabic in the diaspora, Arabic as a minority language, pidgin and creoles, Arabic in the global age, Arabic and new media, Arabic and political discourse.
Scholars and students will find essential theories and methods that relate language to identity in this handbook. It is particularly of interest to scholars and students whose work is related to the Arab world, political science, modern political thought, Islam and social sciences including: general linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, anthropology, political science, sociology, psychology, literature media studies and Islamic studies.
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“I Always Knew It… Digo, Quizás no era Perfect”: Translingual Acts of Identity in the Speech of a Returnee Migrant
The following paper addresses the topic of transnationalism in U.S. territory Puerto Rico. As a previous Spanish colony and current U.S. territory, Puerto Rico provides rich grounds for the study of fluid identities to take place. While transnationalist literature has typically focused on describing contexts of crossed “borders” or cultures in a geo-political sense (cf. Kramsch and Whiteside, 2008; Li and Zhu, 2013), or as subcultural trends that become widespread through developments of globalization (cf. Pennycook, 2006), Puerto Ricans have often been excluded from transnationalist discourses of Latin American communities due to their unique status as U.S. citizens. Through this article I aim to provide an ideological account of the complex voices and identities that make up the language practices of a Puerto Rican transnational. I adopt Jorge Duany’s (2003) concept of “postcolonial peoplehood” alongside Michael Bakhtin’s (1981) heterglossia, to explore the multiple ideological positionings and constructions of self of a returnee migrant. I also incorporate fluid constructs of youth and global subcultures to my descriptive account of variable language use on the island. Thus, taking into account new ways of speaking that have emerged from our globalized economies, technological innovations, and virtual forms of communication (Vertovec, 2009; De Fina & Perrino, 2013; Duff, 2015), and, with it, new ways of constructing meaning in interaction. One case is provided in which “Puerto Ricanhood” and “American citizenship” is enacted through variable linguistic means. Specifically, I discuss the bilingual practices and identity constructions of Miguel, a returnee migrant from Virginia, as he actively claims his right to local identity by engaging in local registers. By providing Miguel’s case, I demonstrate how different language styles and positionalities may not be boxed into homogenous constructs, rather that an individuals’ speaking style and identities, may be complex and transcendant.
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Variation and Identity in the Americas
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Language and national identities
Variation and attitudes of Spanish speakers towards indigenous languages
Transnational communities' identities
Variation and attitudes among Spanish speakers in the United States
Conclusion
References
Book Chapter
Identidade lexical, funcionamento enunciativo e variação semântica para a Teoria das Operações Enunciativas
Este trabalho propõe uma abordagem semântica diferenciada da relação que os lexemas verbais mantêm com os contextos nos quais se inserem e cuja construção enunciativa sustentam. Fundamentase no princípio de que os modelos composicionais de constituição do sentido de um enunciado são insuficientes para explicar, de um lado, as interações entre as unidades linguísticas que lhe dão forma, de outro, as variações semânticas observadas. Tomando como ilustração a análise do funcionamento enunciativo dos verbos romper e quebrar em português brasileiro (PB), busca evidenciar em que medida os processos semânticos próprios a estas unidades se aproximam e se distanciam nas cenas enunciativas que constroem. O quadro teórico-metodológico adotado é o da Teoria das Operações Enunciativas, referencial inscrito no campo da Linguística da Enunciação e que tem na prática de elaboração de glosas seu fundamento analítico. Operação sustentada pela atividade epilinguística constitutiva da linguagem, a glosa se estabelece pela manipulação controlada do material empírico, que expõe circunstâncias e restrições referentes ao emprego dos verbos em articulação com seus contextos de inserção. Palavras-chave: identidade e variação semânticas, lexemas verbais, abordagem enunciativa, português brasileiro, análise contrastiva de romper e quebrar.
Journal Article
Variation and Identity in Spain
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction: origins and development of Castilian Spanish in Spain
Variation and identity in current Peninsular Spanish
Concluding remarks: toward multilingualism
References
Book Chapter
Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction: Ethnicity, Contact, and Sociolinguistic Variation
Diverse Settings, Diverse Patterns of Convergence
Contact between Majority and Minority Ethnic Varieties
Contact among Minority Ethnic Varieties
Tri‐Ethnic Settings and Multiple Varieties in Contact
Questions for Future Research
References
Book Chapter
Queer Embodiment
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans persons.
Malatino traces both institutional and interpersonal failures to dignify non-sexually dimorphic bodies and examines the ways in which the ontology of gender difference developed by modern sexologists conflicts with embodied experience. Malatino comprehensively shows how gender-normalizing practices begin at the clinic but are then amplified over time at both intimate and systemic levels, through mechanisms of institutional exclusion and through contemporary Eurocentric cultures' cis-centric and bio-normative understanding of sexuality, reproductive capacity, romantic partnership, and kinship.
Combining personal accounts with archival evidence, Malatino presents intersexuality as the conceptual shibboleth of queerness, the figure through which nonnormative genders and desires are, and have been historically, understood. The medical, scientific, and philosophical discourse on intersexuality underlying our contemporary understanding of sexed selfhood requires theoretical and ethical reconsideration in order to facilitate understanding gender anew as an intra-active and continually differentiating process of becoming that exceeds and undoes restrictive binary logic.
eBook
Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca
The use of English as a global lingua franca has given rise to new challenges and approaches in our understanding of language and communication. One area where ELF (English as a lingua franca) studies, both from an empirical and theoretical orientation, have the potential for significant developments is in our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity. ELF challenges traditional assumptions concerning the purposed 'inexorable' link between a language and a culture. Due to the multitude of users and contexts of ELF communication the supposed language, culture and identity correlation, often conceived at the national level, appears simplistic and naïve. However, it is equally naïve to assume that ELF is a culturally and identity neutral form of communication. All communication involves participants, purposes, contexts and histories, none of which are 'neutral'. Thus, we need new approaches to understanding the relationship between language, culture and identity which are able to account for the multifarious and dynamic nature of ELF communication.
eBook
Race and language teaching
In this review article on race and language teaching, we highlight an urgent need for the international educational community to continue to develop a complex understanding of how language teaching and learners’ lives are shaped by our global history of racist practices of colonial expansion, including settler colonialism and transatlantic slavery. We outline the genesis of research on race and language teaching and review literature that reflects a recent increase in scope and range of studies that problematize the workings of race and racism in language teaching and point to hopeful solutions for addressing effects of racial inequities. We conceptualize two key terms, ‘race’ and ‘language,’ then overview theories that appeared most significant in the research literature. We explore five interconnected themes that featured prominently throughout the existing literature on race and language teaching: standard language ideology and racial hegemony, the idealized and racialized native speaker, racial hierarchies of languages and language speakers, racialization and teacher identity, and race-centered approaches to pedagogies and educational practices. We offer a critical analysis of the current status of scholarship on race and language teaching, including gaps and necessary reframing, and conclude with implications for future directions and questions arising from the work.
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