Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2017-03-02T16:28:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Carolina Moreira Paulino_.pdf: 727630 bytes, checksum: 7ceb3c9ed1b8ec21eeb62041958eafd2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-02T16:28:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Carolina Moreira Paulino_.pdf: 727630 bytes, checksum: 7ceb3c9ed1b8ec21eeb62041958eafd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-20 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho objetiva investigar, à luz de um escopo teórico advindo das áreas da Linguística Aplicada e das Ciências Sociais, as relações entre as representações da língua inglesa, as identidades, as comunidades imaginadas e o investimento dado por aprendizes participantes de uma turma do curso de inglês básico do Programa Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Técnico e Emprego (PRONATEC) à aquisição da língua inglesa. Para chegar às respostas das perguntas norteadoras da pesquisa, foi utilizada como metodologia a pesquisa narrativa, que garante, por sua perspectiva êmica, que os participantes do estudo tenham voz para expressar, através de seus relatos, suas próprias experiências e opiniões. Os instrumentos utilizados para a geração dos dados foram entrevistas episódicas com três participantes, além da observação de aulas em diferentes etapas do curso, acompanhada de anotações de campo. As representações da língua inglesa como a língua do mercado de trabalho e do turismo, que trazem consigo o viés utilitarista da língua, vendo-a como uma chave de acesso a uma gama de informações, cultura, e oportunidades profissionais, foram as mais encontradas nas narrativas dos participantes. Percebeu-se também que as identidades dos aprendizes são múltiplas e estão em constante conflito, e que determinam quando e como cada um pode se expressar. As comunidades imaginadas dos aprendizes dizem respeito a grupos de profissionais do turismo que têm oportunidades de trabalho através do conhecimento da língua inglesa, viajantes internacionais e até mães dedicadas ao sucesso escolar de seus filhos. Concluiu-se que as representações, identidades e comunidades imaginadas dos aprendizes são construídas através de discursos presentes nos diversos contextos de que participam, e que são sempre permeadas por relações de poder, que incentivam ou inibem o seu investimento na tarefa de aprender a nova língua. / The present work aims to investigate, in the light of a theoretical spectrum coming from the areas of Applied Linguistics and Social Sciences, the relations between the representations of the English language, the identities, the imagined communities and the investment given by learners from a group of the basic English course of PRONATEC to the acquisition of the English language. The methodology used to answer the research questions was the narrative research, which guarantees, given its emic perspective, that the participants have a voice to express in their narratives their own experiences and opinions. Episodic interviews with three participants, as well as class observation in different stages of the course, accompanied by field notes, were used as instruments to generate data. The main representations of the English language observed in the participants’ narratives were the ones that see it as the language of the job market and the tourism, and that bring along with them the utilitarian bias of the language, representing it as a key to open doors that lead to a range of information and culture, and professional opportunities. It was also noticed that the learners’ identities are multiple and in continuous conflict, and that they determine when and how each one of them can express themselves. The learners’ imagined communities are mainly groups of tourism professionals who have job opportunities due to their English skills, international travelers, and even mothers who dedicate their time to their children’s educational progress. We concluded that the learners’ representations, identities and imagined communities are built through the dialog of the discourses present in the different contexts in which they take part, and that they are always permeated by relations of power, which may encourage or inhibit their investment in learning a new language.

Learning English as a second language is a key factor to promote globalization, because the language has spread widely. Furthermore, learning English vocabulary for the fast-paced global business environment is highly dependent on the imagined future of a business major; he or she must imagine in what context the business career will take place: what sphere of activity will be involved, in which scenarios of language usage, and what lexical items will be needed. Vocabulary learning has long been characterized by the use of decontextualized vocabulary academic word lists. As an alternative, this project researches the use of an integrated language thematic mode--the theme being business communication-with a focus on incorporating various linguistics aspects of learning English. This research will emphasize the integrated linguistics approach to the acquisition of academic vocabulary. Additionally, the project explores the use of an individual’s imagined community in setting vocabulary goals and second-language-acquisition strategies. The study took place at the English Language Program and College of Business and Public Administration (CBPA) at California State University, San Bernardino in the spring of 2016. International students were asked to participate in a survey; an interview questionnaire was designed to discover the students’ preferences strategies and in learning English with respect to their future career. The results varied based on students’ backgrounds, their specific majors, and their personalities and preferred ways of learning.

This study is based upon the idea that foreign language (FL) classrooms exist apart from their target language communities. While historically, this has been a geographic truth, divides between FL learners and native speakers may also reflect symbolic social distance. Given the symbolic, if not geographic, isolation of the FL classroom from the real world, this study presumes that a challenge inherent to the endeavor of FL education is that the authentic, real-world language and culture under study are, by definition, not naturally present in the FL classroom. This study considers how this challenge, referred to as the challenge of authenticity, is managed in one FL classroom. Seven eighth-grade students and their teacher comprise Classroom 204, a beginning Spanish FL classroom at a private school in the southwest U.S. This qualitative case study uses classroom observations, audio-recordings, classroom artifacts, and participant interviews as data to consider not only how authenticity is imported, imagined, and conjured by participants in Classroom 204, but how authenticity is assigned value therein. Data is analyzed largely with discourse analysis of transcripts of classroom talk about (and classroom talk that constituted) various facets of authenticity, value, and the real world. Ecology theory serves as a broad theoretical lens through which to understand (and accept) the complexity inherent to the social phenomena being researched. Benedict Anderson's (1991) theory of imagined communities is adopted to understand the boundaries that delineate the inside of the FL classroom from the outside, and Bourdieu's (1992) notion of symbolic capital is used to understand the ways by which authenticity becomes valuable (and, conversely, how that which is valuable becomes authentic). Findings suggest that, while participants are largely oriented to real-world manifestations of Spanish language and culture, authenticity is not most present in Classroom 204 in the form of stuff imported from elsewhere. Rather, authenticity emerges out of the highly local, socially-immediate interactions and value systems unique to Classroom 204. Suggestions for both pedagogy and future research focus on approaches that acknowledge and capitalize on the power of local authenticity in the FL classroom, as cultivated by local social actors. / text

Transculturalism refers to how cultural barriers are transcended and how cultures meet. Because the transcultural perspective reflects hitherto unrepresented spaces, it revises and innovates literary canons. This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. It also explores how these aspects might alter our view of Canadian literature. The transcultural perspectives between mainstream Canada and Ukraine, Europe and Acadie have been analysed through three tropes of travel: departure, passage and arrival. Keefer’s texts have been read in accordance with Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theories to chart transcultural encounters and clashes. This thesis argues that a historic consciousness of their ethnic group gives the young generation a transcultural position that enables them to profit from their dual cultural competence. Although Imagined Communities are affirmed as receptacles of the cultural heritage, the impending environmental catastrophe demands that the national interests that they represent be abandoned for international co-operation. In Keefer’s European texts the transcultural aspects reflect how travel becomes synonymous with quests and epiphanies. Travelling is described as a learning process in Rest Harrow where the protagonist’s increasing cultural competence changes her from a tourist to a real traveller. The transcultural aspects also unmask prejudices, collisions and failed transitions. In this context Imagined Communities are criticized as agents of the colonial discourse, chauvinism, and intolerance. The transcultural perspective also reveals that patriarchal paradigms and the silencing of persecutions victimize the young generation. Furthermore, their ignorance of the mother tongue works as a linguistic barrier shutting them out from their ethnic group. Keefer's Acadian texts support Bakhtin's contention that isolated groups become intolerant to strangers and deviants. While the transcultural perspective unmasks tourists' perception of other countries as idiosyncratic, also the travellers' own ironic postmodernist view of themselves as tourists and of the artificiality of tourism is featured. The cultural assumptions of literary discourse are challenged by border blurring phenomena such as story-telling, the camivalesque, intertextuality and historiographic metafiction. Thus the morality of Keefer's transcultural approach lies also in her literary technique. The alternative perspective inherent in transculturalism makes individuals break away from their given cultural context to embrace a new transcultural ethos. / <p>Diss. Umeå : Umeå universitet, 1996</p> / digitalisering@umu

This study is a qualitative research of Japanese "chuzai" families (short-term residents) concerning parental perspectives toward children's education in Southern Illinois. The primary data was collected by questionnaires, individual and group interviews, and school observations. The main participants of this study were five mothers of the "chuzai" group in Southern Illinois, in which questionnaires, individual and group interviews were conducted. Furthermore, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the children's education, school visits were made to the Japanese Saturday School and the ELL (English Language Learner) program of the local school which the children attended, including classroom observations. Additionally, interviews with the principal of the Japanese school and the ELL teacher were conducted, and questionnaires were also distributed to all the parents whose children attended the Japanese Saturday School. The notion of imagined communities (Anderson, 1991; Norton, 2001) was employed as the theoretical framework in order to examine "chuzai" people's current lives in Southern Illinois and their attitudes toward their children's education. The study reveals that "chuzai" families are different in various ways from both "eiju" (permanent residents) and Japanese communities in larger cities. Even though the Japanese community in Southern Illinois is small and features limited access to Japanese products, they maintain their Japanese lifestyle and strong connection with Japanese people in their community remarkably well. Interestingly, they show positive attitudes toward living in Southern Illinois, but they also have concerns due to their transiency as "chuzai." In relation to perspectives on children's education, this study suggests that parents have positive perspectives toward maintaining their Japanese culture, as well as learning the English language and experiencing American culture. Their heritage as Japanese strongly affects their daily practices even on a subconscious level; furthermore, their status of "chuzai" emphasizes the importance of keeping up their children's academic skills with the Japanese standard. At the same time, they also consider this short-term stay in the U.S. as an advantage in terms of providing new experiences and an opportunity for their children to learn English. The findings indicate that parents' imagined communities for their children's future have a great impact on their current investment (Norton Peirce, 2000). "Chuzai" families envision their future lives in Japan because they plan to return eventually, thus affecting their hopes for their children to be successful while readapting to schools in their home country. In this regard, Japanese Saturday school plays a crucial role as support for preparing children for their return to Japan regarding academic and social skills. In addition to the importance of becoming successful in Japan, parents also believe that the experience in the U.S. and English skills broaden their children's future in a global economy. The ELL program at the local school helps children in terms of learning English in order for them to be able to manage school life in the U.S. This study suggests that parental perspectives influence their children's education, and it is important for educators to understand the students' backgrounds and needs in order to provide appropriate education.

Esta tese investiga o estilo no futebol como fenômeno de significação, argumentando que o comentário ao jogo funciona como tradução do que se vê em campo. Entendemos que os estilos, em geral associados a nações, só existem pelo olhar subjetivo coletivo dos observadores (comentaristas e aficionados, mas também, por reverberação, da parcela não torcedora de uma comunidade), os quais traduzem o estilo a cada partida, a cada acontecimento futebolístico na história. Essas práticas discursivas, por sua vez, se concretizam no que chamamos narrativas do estilo produto da tradução do que Dominique Maingueneau classifica como o discurso primeiro do futebol no discurso segundo dos observadores, acumulado sistematicamente na língua literária que, segundo Benedict Anderson, reúne comunidades imaginadas nacionais em torno de jornais (mas este trabalho considera a hipótese de que outras mídias também sirvam como esse ponto de encontro) e romances, ou seja, no chão comum das narrativas impressas. Dois estudos de caso ilustram nossa argumentação teórica, ambos baseados na análise de textos de jornais: a partir de relatos sobre turnês de clubes britânicos a Buenos Aires nos anos 1920, investigamos a construção do que Richard Giulianotti conceitua como uma oposição sintática entre as comunidades nacionais de Inglaterra e Argentina; num segundo momento, buscamos as variações semânticas, ainda nos termos de Giulianotti, envolvendo comunidades locais/regionais em sua relação com a nação em foco, o Arsenal de Londres e, novamente, a comunidade imaginada inglesa. O futebol, concluímos, só ganha sentido pleno numa sequência narrativa midiática e enraizada historicamente. As narrativas do estilo constroem um enredo comum espécie de folhetim permanente e amálgama das identidades comunitárias. Por essa tendência à folhetinização, tanto na forma (simbiose com o veículo, a mídia) quanto no conteúdo (o acontecimento como matéria-prima fundamental), o futebol, sugerimos por fim, está para a cultura dos modernos esportes de competição como o romance também derivado do folhetim para a cultura literária, ambos como linguagens traduzíveis em narrativas e estilos / This thesis investigates the style in football as a signifying phenomenon, arguing that the language of the game translates into the commentary on what is seen on the pitch. We consider that the styles, generally associated with nations, only exist by the observers collective and subjective interpretations. These observers (commentators and fans, but also the non-fan part of a community) translate the style by the event match by match in football history. These discursive practices, in turn, take the form of what we call narratives of style, in a process that Dominique Maingueneau ranks as a translation of the primary discourse of football into the secondary discourse of the observers, systematically accumulated in the literary language which, according to Benedict Anderson, brings together national imagined communities around newspapers (but this thesis considers the hypothesis that other media might also play the same role) and novels, i.e., the common ground of printed narratives. Two case studies illustrate our theoretical arguments, both based on the analysis of press reports: firstly, from the tours British clubs took in Buenos Aires in the 1920s, investigating the construction of what Richard Giulianotti sees as a syntactic opposition between the national communities of England and Argentina; subsequently, we seek the semantic variations, still in Giulianottis terms, involving local/regional communities in their relationship with the nation and focusing on the Arsenal, from North London, and again the English imagined community. Football, we conclude, only reaches its full meaning as historically rooted media narratives. The narratives of style form this serialized and permanently renewed story that amalgamates community identities. Footballs form (in symbiosis with the media) and content (the event as a basic source of storytelling), we would like to argue at last, suggests that the game works for the culture of modern competitive sports as the novel also originally derived from serialized stories published in newspapers does for the literary culture at large, both of them languages translatable into narratives and styles

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The focus of the thesis is conceptually-based and problematizes the notion of a transformed society while addressing and evaluating its meaning in the multicultural post-apartheid neighbourhood of Observatory, Cape Town. Confluent concepts such as ‘multilingualism’, ‘hybridity’ and ‘community’ are discussed within the historical and contemporary context of a newly established democratic South Africa. Through a poststructuralist discourse analysis, the study endeavours to explore discourses of language and identity in the previously predominantly English-speaking community of Observatory. It is hoped that this research will build upon knowledge of inter alia social interaction, translocations and community membership, identity, language and integration in Observatory. Focus therefore rest on issues such as hybridity, identity options, translocal and transnational cultural flows, localization and globalization. All these issues fall under the broader theme of discourse of transformation and integration in multilingual spaces. The study strictly works within the framework of a qualitative approach with the focus resting on a discourse analysis of generated narratives supplied by informants during interviews and temporal and spatial descriptions of research sites. Arising from this study it is hoped that a deeper understanding of migration, transnational and transcultural flows, hybridity and identity will be reached. Critically, this study delves into two ‘new’ areas which subsume sociolinguistics, specifically semiotic landscape and place branding. Exploration into the appropriation of space by ‘newcomers’ and the subsequent reimaginings of space into place are of keen interest here. In this respect, this study aims at shedding light on recurrent, contesting and and new imaginings of diversity in post-apartheid living.

Curriculums define what a nation deems as valuable skills and values to be taught to the young individuals that will be entering society. The aim of this study is to analyse which type of nationalism that can be found in Swedish curriculums for higher education from 1935-2011 and how the nationalism is expressed. By applying Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined communities in conjunction with Anthony D. Smith’s ethno-symbolism, we did a text analysis of four selected Swedish curriculums. These curriculums were chosen based on being the four that suited the chosen era as well as being designed for nonobligatory higher education.Results showed that each curriculum has its own type and form of nationalism with distinct features and means of creating imagined communities between individuals. Metodiska anvisningar för rikets allmänna läroverk has a nationalism based upon the individual’s love for the motherland Sweden. Lgy 70 displays a nationalism centered around the mentality of ‘us versus them’. Lpf 94 shows nationalism defined by cultural understanding and shared values. Gy2011 exhibits a nationalism characterised by equal understanding and shared points of reference. Some of the features and means of creating imagined communities are shared and evolved over time between the different curriculums and the later three aim to avoid being nationalistic. Nonetheless, they still have an element of nationalism in them that dictates their stance on valuable skills and knowledge for their respective contemporary era.

The purpose of this essay is to get an understanding of how the Swedish Democrats have such a prosperity in the countryside. The aim is also to see if, and in that case how, the Swedish Democrats uses religion as a tool to increase their voter support. This will be especially focused, and compared with, what the respondents have to say about the countryside. To achieve this a qualitative interview study will be used to establish the information needed. The use of a qualitative interview study is essential due to the need of profound and complex information from the respondents. The respondents sit on a big knowledge because of their close relationship with the village and the Swedish Democrats. Further on the study will be set in a small town where the Swedish Democrats have a strong support. In this small village three out of the four Sweden Democrats who sit in the municipal council lives. The study will be in close proximity with words as xenophobia and islamophobia and it aims to supplement the research previously focused on the Swedish Democrats as ideology, with its actual representatives in the countryside.

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