25.2642, Books: The Language of Adult Immigrants: Miller

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Subject: The Language of Adult Immigrants: Miller

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Title: The Language of Adult Immigrants 
Subtitle: Agency in the Making 
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1nkWd98 

Author: Elizabeth R Miller

Hardback: ISBN:  9781783092048 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 159.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781783092048 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781783092031 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 29.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781783092031 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 49.95

Abstract:

This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency
by drawing on performativity theory, an approach that remains on the periphery
of second language research. Though many scholars have drawn on
poststructuralism to theorize learner identity in non-essentialist terms, most
have treated agency as an essential feature that belongs to or inheres in
individuals. By contrast, this work promotes a view of learner agency as
inherently social and as performatively constituted in discursive practice. In
developing a performativity approach to learner agency, it builds on the work
of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on ‘agency of spaces’ and language
ideologies. Through the study of discourses produced in interviews, this work
explores how immigrant small business owners co-construct their theories of
agency, in relation to language learning and use. The analysis focuses on
three discursive constructs produced in the interview talk–subject-predicate
constructs, evaluative stance, and reported speech–and investigates their
discursive effects in mobilizing ideologically normative, performatively
realized agentive selves.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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