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

[Noriko Akimoto Sugimori]

Thank you very much, Hala. I am still in the midst of reading the paper,
but your comments are very helpful.

Noriko

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Hala Jawlakh wrote:

> 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
>