CDA Reading Group meeting, 10/27, Wed, 1PM (fwd)

[Hala Jawlakh]

Hi everyone,

I am sorry i have not been very active in this list, but, i
have a couple of comments about this paper. I  read the paper
after Heller presented it at our group meeting here at UIUC.

1- the paper itself seems very anecdotal even though she
lists a tremendous amount of data that is collected.

2- she never says what they actually did with the data after
they collected it.

3- a lot of terms are not defined or are defined in a
ciruclar way. There is at least two terms that are used in
opposition, but then she has one word to define BOTH of them.

4- it's a lot more fun to go to the presentation where she
has slides and hadouts with the actual material quoted in the
paper.


I guess, i was a bit dissapointed. Usually she is one of my
favorite authors, but, this paper is not what we are used to
from her.


Linnea and Noriko, I hope you're doing well,

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:06:29 -0400
>From: Noriko Akimoto Sugimori <sugimori at BU.EDU>
>Subject: CDA Reading Group meeting, 10/27, Wed, 1PM (fwd)
>To: CDA-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>
>Dear all:
>
>Until October 27, we will be discussing:
>Monika Heller (2003)."Globalization, the new economy, and the
>commodification of language and identity" Journal of
Sociolinguistics,
>7/4, 2003: 473-492
>
>THE ABSTRACT: The globalized new economy is bound up with
transformations
>of language and identity in many different ways (cf., e.g.
Bauman 1997;
>Castells 2000; Giddens 1990). These include emerging
tensions between
>State-based and corporate identities and language practices,
between
>local, national and supra-national identities and language
practices, and
>between hybridity and uniformity. Ethnolinguistic minorities
provide a
>praticularly revealing window into these processes. In this
paper, I
>explore ways in which the globalized new economy has
resulted in the
>commodification of language and identity, sometimes
separately, sometimes
>together. The paper is based on recent ethnographic,
sociolinguistics
>research in francophone area of Canada.
>
>I will post some discussion questions on this article later.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Noriko Sugimori
>The CDA Reading Group
>http://people.bu.edu/polyglot/cda.html
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Hala Jawlakh
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign