Authoring the Dialogic Self
Gender, agency and language practices
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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants. Bakhtin’s dialogic framework still remains on the periphery of second language acquisition research. The book embraces not only Bakhtin’s well-known notion of dialogue but also his core concepts of responsibility and ethics in the analysis of immigrants’ narrative samples. The significance of narratives is underscored throughout the book, and a dialogic, discourse-centered approach to narrative as a genre is suggested.
Authoring the Dialogical Self targets a range of disciplines. Scholars in applied linguistics, narrative studies, cultural psychology, and communication studies will find the discussed concepts relevant. The rich data samples and detailed analysis make the book appropriate for graduate courses in TESOL, language and identity, or language and gender.
Authoring the Dialogical Self targets a range of disciplines. Scholars in applied linguistics, narrative studies, cultural psychology, and communication studies will find the discussed concepts relevant. The rich data samples and detailed analysis make the book appropriate for graduate courses in TESOL, language and identity, or language and gender.
[Dialogue Studies, 8] 2010. vi, 175 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. 1–8
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Chapter 1. Language, consciousness, and dialogical selves: An outline of theoretical underpinnings | pp. 9–34
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Chapter 2. Introducing the participants and the setting of qualitative inquiry | pp. 35–48
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Chapter 3. Positionings in the second language: Gender, power, and emotion | pp. 49–74
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Chapter 4. Gender, language learning, and discursive practices | pp. 75–104
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Chapter 5. Between the self and the Other: Culture and subjectivity in immigrants’ worlds | pp. 105–128
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Chapter 6. Acts of agency in a new language | pp. 129–152
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Afterword | pp. 153–159
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Legend of transcription symbols in narrative excerpts | p. 160
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Index | pp. 171–175
“Vitanova gives voice to the language-embedded experience of immigrants and succeeds in convincing the reader of the benefits of a dialogic approach.”
Marion Grein, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, in Language and Dialogue, Vol. 1:1 (2011)
“[...] Gergana Vitanova foregrounds in a captivating way the storied representations of four couples' navigations of self (and value) in English. The book provides a welcome for Bakhtin's ideas in the field of applied linguistics. It offers a much-needed application of key Bakhtinian notions to real discourse data and contributes to the study of dialogic language use. It will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines concerned with issues in second language learning and acculuration, language and emotion and gender.”
Korina Giaxoglou, Kingston University London, in Applied Linguistics Vol. 32(3), 2011
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General