Construction d'identité et processus d'identification

Construction d'identité et processus d'identification
Author: Sylvester N. Osu
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783034303569

Le terme identité s'inscrit dans un réseau lexical complexe et connaît une telle diversité d'emplois qu'il est difficile de le cerner. Il présente par ailleurs des sens techniques différents selon les disciplines, et la recherche de ce concept dans les dictionnaires des Sciences du langage s'avère peu satisfaisante. Le présent ouvrage, issu du colloque « Construction d'identité et processus d'identification » (organisé à l'Université François Rabelais, Tours en novembre 2007) reprend une partie revue et corrigée après relecture anonyme des communications orales de ce colloque. Il tient sa singularité de ce que l'identité y est considérée non comme catégorie de langue ou de discours ou encore comme indice d'une appartenance socioculturelle mais plutôt comme un construit et l'identification comme une construction à part entière. La question se pose alors de savoir de quoi est construite l'identité et comment ? Les contributeurs à ce volume, sous des angles différents, tentent de répondre à ces questions, en analysant les différents processus langagiers qui concourent à sa construction.

Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity

Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity
Author: Julie Byrd Clark
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441178759

Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this groundbreaking book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities.This timely work is the first to consider the significance of multilingualism and its relationship to citizenship as well as the development of linguistic repertoires as an essential component of language education in a globalized world. While examining the discourses and interconnections between multilingualism, globalization, and identity, the author draws upon a unique case study of the experiences, voices, trajectories, and journeys of Canadian youth of Italian origin from diverse social, geographical, and linguistic backgrounds, participating in university French language courses as well as training to become teachers of French in the urban, multicultural and global landscape of Toronto, Canada. In doing so, Byrd Clark skilfully illustrates the multidimensional ways that youth invest in language learning and socially construe their multiple identities within diverse contexts while weaving in and out of particularistic and universalistic identifications. This invaluable resource will not only shed light on how and why people engage in learning languages and for which languages they choose to invest, but will offer readers a deeper understanding of the complex interrelationships between multilingualism, identity, and citizenship. It will appeal to researchers in a variety of fields, including applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and linguistic anthropology.

Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Contexts

Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Contexts
Author: Agnieszka Otwinowska
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-01-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783091274

It is clearly illogical to search for one good, universal solution for multilingual education when educational contexts differ so widely due to demographic and social factors. The situation is further complicated by the motivations of learners and teachers, and by attitudes towards multilingualism and ‘otherness’. The studies in this volume seek to investigate not only whether certain solutions and practices are ‘good’, but also when and for whom they make sense. The book covers a wide range of Western multilingual contexts, and uncovers common themes and practices, shared aims and preoccupations, and often similar solutions, within seemingly diverse contexts. In addition to chapters based on empirical data, this book offers theoretical contributions in the shape of a discussion of the appropriateness of L1-Ln terminology when discussing complex multilingual realities, and looks at how the age factor works in classroom settings.

Reflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education

Reflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education
Author: Julie S. Byrd Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134756933

With the impact of accelerated globalization, digital technologies, mobility, and migration, the fields of Applied Linguistics, Language, and Intercultural Education have been shifting. One shift in need of further exploration is that of systematic and coherent reflexivity in researching language and culture. This unique and timely book thus examines the significance of reflexivity as an integral process, particularly when researching the multifaceted notions of multilingualism and interculturality in education. It also contributes to current critical approaches to representations of languages and cultures in identity politics. As such, the authors offer innovative ways of engaging with reflexivity in teaching, learning, and research through multimodal and complex ways. The chapters span a diverse range of educational settings in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.

Naming, Identity and Tourism

Naming, Identity and Tourism
Author: Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527545415

Names weave the texture of our daily lives in ways that are self-evident. However, behind their taken-for-granted threads, they conceal a considerable meaning potential that may turn them into malleable vehicles of human goals and agendas. The novelty of this volume lies in the special focus it places on the intersections of naming, identity and tourism, pointing to how names may play a role in the multifaceted process of identity-formation by shaping and promoting tourist attractions, be they topographical or metaphorical locations. The volume collects original contributions on this emerging field of enquiry that foster an eclectic approach to the study of names. The thematic focus and the several approaches adopted here will make the text appealing to postgraduate students and researchers from several disciplinary fields ranging across onomastics, linguistics, cultural and social geography, history, archaeology, heritage, literature, postcolonial studies, and media studies.

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
Author: G. Atindogbe
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9956764981

This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics.

Linguistics for Intercultural Education

Linguistics for Intercultural Education
Author: Fred Dervin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027272352

The issue of intercultural learning has been tackled, amongst others, in the fields of education, language education and applied linguistics. In spite of the extensive literature on the subject, there is still much which needs to be done to address the ways in which linguistics itself can contribute to intercultural education. The 8 chapters by internationally-renowned scholars highlight different ways of using it both in the classroom and in researching intercultural education. The following approaches are covered: Critical Discourse Analysis, Énonciation, Conversation Analysis and Pragmatics. The introduction to the volume also offers a useful and comprehensive survey of the debates around the polysemic notion of the ‘intercultural’. The book will appeal to an international readership of students, scholars and professionals across a wide range of disciplines, interested in making intercultural education more effective.

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages Volume 2

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages Volume 2
Author: Marta Degani
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443857297

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective. To date, most contributions to the analysis of political discourse have come from the fields of rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, lexicology, lexicography, and, more recently, multimodal discourse analysis. The papers in this volume build their investigations on these perspectives, and provide new and diversified insights into this vast area of research. Besides considering multiple approaches, the book also adds to the current debate on the languages of politics by combining a range of theoretical and methodological considerations, and by featuring contributions in both English and French.

Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots

Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots
Author: Adlai Murdoch
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-10-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443869546

Migration is both a demographic and a cultural phenomenon. As such, it both reshapes the global village and subverts the all-encompassing vision of the city, a space split between the blending of all new cultures and the need felt by many migrants to maintain their traditions and thereby contribute to a multicultural mosaic. This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant movements to these cities from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Quebec, Indochina, and the Indian Ocean have produced new groups of intersecting cultures. Under the dual influences of their native and host countries, migrants have produced an innovative and multifaceted literature that reflects their composite world-view. Their writing poses pressing questions of ethnicity, immigration, integration, and citizenship, and challenges longstanding notions both of the concept of the city and of how its spaces embody and articulate Frenchness in the face of ongoing change. Such shifts produce changes not only in the diasporic culture, but in the national culture as well, through creolization processes. These shifting identities increasingly destabilize current notions of national membership and social and cultural belonging, since we can no longer presume a direct correspondence between place, culture, language and identity. They also pose new questions of national identity and difference as the immigrant presence expands and inflects the cosmopolitan pluralism of today’s societies.

»I Have a Very Good Trust in My God«

»I Have a Very Good Trust in My God«
Author: Eva-Maria Zeis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3112402146

Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.