230155 Language and Identity (S) (SoSe 2016)

This course explores how language as social practice constructs individual and collective identities and the significance of identity and identification in educational contexts. The theoretical framework is cross-disciplinary. Readings are taken from linguistics, anthropology, sociology, critical discourse theory, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and educational theory. Topics covered include: language, identity and subjectivity; language as embodied practice, identification and desire; multiculturalism and the politics of recognition; language learning as mediated action and as the social symbolic construction of self; writing and textual identity, authorship and voice; autobiographical narrative; pedagogy and symbolic control; virtual identities.

Literaturangaben

Ivanic, Roz. 1998. Writing and Identity: The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Norton, Bonny. 2013. Identity and Language Learning. Extending the conversation. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Wortham, Stanton. 2006. Learning identity. Cambridge U Press.