Post by selfe2 on Oct 19, 2012 8:33:39 GMT -5
Most valuable from this paper:
The colonial order, as Rochelle notes, is still alive and well in South Africa. Students’ identity and movement within this system is tightly and complexly linked to the use of English as a language of power and the discourses associated with it.
A response and challenge:
How do we pay attention—simultaneously—to both the old meanings and the new meanings of English and the discourses associated with English? And how do we trace the dynamic flows of power and and contestation and practices around language in various places and spaces within these networks? How do we map identity work onto this complex set of challenges?b Could cell phones be deployed as tools for tracing different language practices in different spaces and times?
The colonial order, as Rochelle notes, is still alive and well in South Africa. Students’ identity and movement within this system is tightly and complexly linked to the use of English as a language of power and the discourses associated with it.
A response and challenge:
How do we pay attention—simultaneously—to both the old meanings and the new meanings of English and the discourses associated with English? And how do we trace the dynamic flows of power and and contestation and practices around language in various places and spaces within these networks? How do we map identity work onto this complex set of challenges?b Could cell phones be deployed as tools for tracing different language practices in different spaces and times?