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Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction – both inside and outside the classroom – to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school). Combining field data gathered through a series of detailed interviews with available classroom observations, the study focuses on six adolescents from different ethnic and social backgrounds as they negotiate the learning of English against the backdrop of multilingual Singapore. This book provides social explanations for the difficulties and challenges these adolescents face by drawing on current developments in sociolinguistics, literacy studies, English language teaching and language policy.

English language -- Study and teaching -- Singapore -- Foreign speakers. --- Multilingualism -- Singapore. --- Native language and education -- Singapore. --- English language --- Native language and education --- Multilingualism --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Language --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Native language --- Use in schools --- Language and languages --- Education --- Language and education --- Germanic languages --- Bourdieu. --- English language teaching. --- ethnography of communication. --- language issues in Singapore. --- language policy. --- linguistic identity. --- literacy and identity. --- literacy practices in Singapore. --- multilingual Singapore. --- sociolinguistics.

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"Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational and translocal contexts; and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational and translocal processes.The contributors pay attention to the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism in socially stratified and ethnically plural social settings. Together, they offer ground-breaking research on language practices and documentary practices as regards to access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes in a range of settings across several continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe"-- Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational and translocal contexts; and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational and translocal processes.The contributors pay attention to the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism in socially stratified and ethnically plural social settings. Together, they offer ground-breaking research on language practices and documentary practices as regards to access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes in a range of settings across several continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe"

Literacy. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language and languages --- Language and languages --- Language and culture --- Language and languages --- Multilingualism. --- Language and education. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Education --- Study and teaching. --- Globalization. --- Globalization. --- Variation. --- Linguistics --- Sociolinguistics. --- Literacy. --- Bilingual Education.

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In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.

Sociolinguistics --- Cultural pluralism. --- Language policy. --- Linguistic rights. --- Mehrsprachigkeit. --- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft. --- Multilingualism --- Soziolinguistik. --- Social aspects.

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This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as ethnicity and race. The chapter illustrates the disjunctive interplays of visibility and invisibility that characterize the trajectory of a Cameroonian immigrant student, Aline, as she moves through new diasporic and educational spaces in Cape Town. It examines Aline's gradual invisibilization as an indexical process achieved through a set of inter-related semiotic phenomena such as those identified by Bucholtz and Hall: explicit use of identity labels, implicatures and presuppositions regarding identity positions, and evaluative and epistemic stances in relation to ongoing talk. The chapter also analyzes, first, how stances are interdiscursively achieved or disbarred and, second, how the accretion and/or absence of stances over time have longer lasting consequences, helping to construct more durable social categories.

Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Language policy --- Education, Bilingualism --- Sociolinguistics. --- Social aspects. --- Globalization. --- discursive interactions; academic identities; social identities; micro-interactional identities; co-construction of micro-interactional identities; ethnicity; race; Cape Town; South Africa; Caroline Kerfoot; Gwendoline Tatah

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