Second language acquisition has seen a shift toward sociocultural approaches over the past fifteen years (Block, 2007). Sociocultural theory (Offord, 2005), language socialization (Schieffelin and Ochs, 1986), and “communities of practice” (Lave and Wenger, 1991) highlight how language learner identity, like language itself, is both socially and individually constructed. As learners acquire a foreign language, they also gain a new awareness of who and how they are—they develop a second language (L2) self (Granger, 2004). How language learners identify themselves depends on contextual factors (Norton, 1995). This report focuses on how language learner social identity is negotiated in three contexts: the foreign language classroom, the study abroad setting, and in face-to-face interactions. / text

Sociocultural identity is defined for this study as the element of identity affixed to a social or cultural group. Previous research on sociocultural identity has recognized the need for further study of its effect on second language performance, particularly pronunciation. Previous studies have found contradictory results when studying the relationships between sociocultural identity and various measures of second language pronunciation. This thesis takes a quantitative correlational approach to the study of sociocultural identification with the United States and English pronunciation comprehensibility and accent in a group of 68 international students learning English in the United States. Participants completed a survey indicating the strength of their identification with the United States, after which a group of three native speaking raters rated speech samples from the participants for both comprehensibility and accent. Scores from the identity survey were compared with those on the comprehensibility and accent ratings through a FACET analysis. Results showed no correlation between sociocultural identification with the United States and ESL pronunciation in either comprehensibility or accent. These results add further complexity to existent scholarship on identity and pronunciation and lead to a discussion of implications for future study.

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Comment interpréter la clause d’identité nationale, insérée par le Traité de Maastricht au sein du Traité sur l’Union européenne ? Dans sa version courte, elle prévoit que « l’Union respecte l’identité nationale de ses États membres ». La présente étude, centrée sur l’interprétation socioculturelle de la clause, se propose d’examiner sa portée juridique. En la matière, il apparaît que l’intégration européenne entretient un rapport ambivalent avec l’identité collective : si elle encadre juridiquement la façon dont les États membres définissent leur identité nationale – principe de leur unité –, elle ne tend pas à instaurer une identité européenne substitutive, interrogeant par là même les fondements de la démocratie européenne. Dans le mouvement inverse, les identités nationales des États membres ont aussi un impact sur le processus d’intégration : elles constituent une limite matérielle, bien qu’imprécise, à l’intégration économique et politique européenne. Agissant faiblement dans la répartition des compétences entre l’UE et les États membres, l’identité nationale des États membres représente en revanche un frein puissant à la démocratisation de l’UE. Il s’agit là d’un des défis majeurs de la construction européenne : si elle s’oriente dans le sens d’une intégration politique, elle supposera de conceptualiser les fondements d’une démocratie non nationale. A cette fin, dans le contexte européen et sur le plan juridique, en tant que clause d’articulation entre l’universel et le particulier, la clause d’identité nationale gagnerait à être précisée dans son contenu socioculturel et à œuvrer davantage en tant que principe régissant la délimitation des compétences de l’UE. / How should the clause of national identity, inserted by the Maastricht Treaty within the Treaty on European Union, be understood? In its shorter version, this clause provides that “the Union shall respect the national identities of its Member States”. This study, focused on the sociocultural interpretation of the clause, proposes to examine its legal scope. In that matter, the European integration maintains an ambivalent relationship with collective identity: while circumscribing legally the way that the Member States define their own national identity – the principle of their unity –, it is not aimed at establishing a European substitutive identity, and this statement raises the question of the founding principles of the European democracy. In the opposite movement, the national identities of the Member States also have an impact on the integration process: they represent a substantive limit, though imprecise, to the economic and political integration. Having a weak incidence on the division of competence between the EU and the Member States, the national identity of the Member States constitutes in contrast a powerful obstacle to the democratization of the EU. This is precisely one of the major challenges of the European construction: if it follows the political path of integration, it will require the conceptualization of the grounds of a multinational democracy. For this purpose, in the European context and from a legal point of view, as a clause of articulation between the universal and the particular, the clause of national identity would deserve to be specified in its sociocultural content and to be used as a principle guiding the delimitation of competence of the EU.

Submitted by Simone Maisonave (simonemaisonave@hotmail.com) on 2014-11-13T18:31:54Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Santa Julia da Silva_Dissertação.pdf: 2350054 bytes, checksum: fced04794195b7afe1ff6026a60d14b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-13T18:31:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Santa Julia da Silva_Dissertação.pdf: 2350054 bytes, checksum: fced04794195b7afe1ff6026a60d14b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-26 / Sem bolsa / Este estudo aborda numa perspectiva antropológica, a trajetória política e intelectual de Oliveira Silveira considerando um intelectual contemporâneo com uma significativa contribuição para a atualização do pensamento social brasileiro, por meio da elaboração de contranarrativas sobre a presença negra no país. As múltiplas frentes de atuação de Oliveira Silveira impulsionam a refletir sobre os atravessamentos identitários por meio dos quais este se constitui na pessoa-personagem narrada pelos interlocutores dessa pesquisa. Tomando como aporte as discussões que procuram atualizar o campo antropológico em termos teórico-metodológico, este trabalho se inspira na perspectiva de Sahlins (1990), Turner (2005) e Gonçalves (2010), autores que pensam a relação entre ação e estrutura, bem como a relação entre esquemas culturais prévios e as apropriações que os sujeitos fazem deles. Incorpora-se a perspectiva de Said (1993) que discute o papel do intelectual na sociedade contemporânea. Busca-se nos estudos pós-coloniais elementos convergentes para situar Oliveira Silveira como intelectual diaspórico e como portador de uma identidade híbrida representada pela articulação conjunta de sua identidade regional e de sua identidade negra. O estudo procura descrever os deslocamentos vivenciados por Oliveira Silveira tanto no sentido geográfico como sentido simbólico. Este foi o proponente do Vinte de Novembro como data de maior significado para a história negra do país, sendo também atuante em organizações negras, tais como: clubes sociais negros, escolas de samba, congadas. Além disso, organizou vários grupos de ativismo político na capital, o primeiro deles, o Grupo Palmares e depois o Grupo Semba, Razão Negra, Revista Tição e Associação Negra de Cultura. Todas as organizações lideradas por Oliveira Silveira se destinavam, simultaneamente, à luta política e à promoção da cultura negra. Essa dissertação se propõe a apresentar o percurso etnográfico percorrido para apreender como diferentes pessoas, que conviveram com Oliveira Silveira em diferentes momentos compreenderam, significaram e valorizaram a trajetória deste intelectual e ativista. A partir da proposta de etnografia multisituada de George Marcus (1994), a pesquisa procurou identificar a forma como cada interlocutor(a) elaborou sua percepção e interpretação a respeito da trajetória de Oliveira Silveira, convertendo-as em narrativas. / The presuppositions of this study address the political and intellectual trajectory of Oliveira Silveira based on an anthropological perspective. This study takes into consideration that he is a contemporary intellectual that provides a meaningful contribution to the update of the Brazilian social thought, through the presentation of counter-narratives related to the black presence in the country. The many places that Oliveira Silveira occupies stimulated the reflection about the identity crossings from which he is constituted in the person-character, narrated by his interlocutors.Taking as a guide to the discussions that focus on updating the anthropological field in theoretical-methodological terms, it was adopted in this study the perspectives of Sahlins (1990), Tunner (2005) e Gonçalves (2010), authors that think the relation between action and structure, as well as the place of the individual in the cultural life. In this study, it was incorporated the perspective of Said (1993) who discusses the role of the contemporary intellectual. Studies on convergent elements of the post-colonial period were also consulted in order to place Oliveira Silveira as a diasporic intellectual with a hybrid identity represented though the simultaneous articulation of his regional and black identity. In this study, it is intended to describe this displacement lived by Oliveira Silveira in the physical as well as in the symbolic way. This was the proponent of November twentieth as the date of greatest meaning to the black history of the country, being also active in black organizations, such as: clubs, samba schools and congadas. Besides, he has organized many groups in the capital, the first of them, the group Palmares and after the group Semba, Razão Negra, Revista Tição and Associação Negra de Cultura. All these organizations were lead by Oliveira Silveira and aimed at the political fight and to the promotion of the black culture. These dissertations aim at showing how different people, at different moments, understood, made sense and valued the intellectual trajectory of this activist. The choice of the topic of this study brings, a priori in an implicit way, the observation of the meaningful role played by Oliveira Silveira. This research aimed at identifying how each one chose to narrate their perception and comprehension related to the trajectory of Oliveira Silveira.

En el presente estudio vamos a indagar de qué formas influye la lengua materna en la percepción de la identidad en la Comunidad Valenciana. La investigación se basa en un estudio realizado en dos zonas claramente diferenciadas, la zona rural y la zona urbana. Supuestamente hay una diferencia en la percepción de la identidad dependiendo del uso de las dos lenguas oficiales: el valenciano y el castellano. La hipótesis es que las personas cuya lengua materna es el valenciano se sienten más valencianos que los que tienen como lengua materna el castellano. Para comprobar la hipótesis hemos realizado una encuesta con la ayuda de informantes de dos zonas, una zona urbana donde suponemos que el porcentaje que tiene el castellano como lengua materna será más alto y una zona rural donde el porcentaje del uso del valenciano debe ser predominante. Los resultados en gran medida han corroborado nuestra hipótesis, pero no siempre ha sido así. Dado que se desprendía una imagen más compleja, hemos optado por profundizar en otros factores que no sea el hábitat del individuo. Se ha visto que ambas  circunstancias pueden influir en la percepción de la identidad. En un mundo globalizado hemos llegado a la conclusión que los límites culturales no son tan fijos, especialmente entre gente joven y que la lengua entre ellos a veces no señala la pertenencia sociocultural. Además se ha verificado que los informantes se adaptan al entorno y a las situaciones, sintiéndose más valencianos en un micro contexto, es decir cuando están con la familia más cercana, como por ejemplo con la madre, el padre, hermanos, abuelos, incluso primos y cuando habla con éstos.

The focus of this thesis is on cultural translation as a means of understanding the relationship between sociocultural identity with respect to bourgeois white female sexuality and interpretations by news journalists, writers and filmmakers. The thesis brings translation scholar Lawrence Venuti’s description of foreign and domestic texts (2008) into conversation with Catherine Cole’s analysis of journalists as active interpreters of newsworthy events (2010) to support my view of the media as a translator of sociocultural identity. The thesis outlines the construction of bourgeois white femininity within the U.S. imaginary and a more detailed account of its direct impact upon journalistic production and reception. I accomplish this by analyzing the media treatment of two white females accused of murder whose criminal cases were brought into the public eye: Aileen Wuornos and Amanda Knox. I examine sociocultural expectations within the United States, as reflected in journalistic accounts, regarding appropriate ‘performances’ of bourgeois white femininity. Referring to the construction of bourgeois white femininity as a performative framework, I track its fabrication in media headlines, televised reports and articles of the Wuornos and Knox cases from sources like The New Yorker, Time, CNN and Fox News. My aim is to discover the different ideations, or translations, of this performative framework in written journalism and consider the repercussions of deviating from social expectations of bourgeois white womanhood. I then examine documentaries and televised interviews of Wuornos and Knox (from the Discovery Channel, ABC News, Netflix and other sources) where the same performative framework appears within their cinematic depictions. My findings regarding the journalistic translations of bourgeois white femininity reveal a particular form of weaponization of the news media in U.S. society with respect to white women. I extend my discussion to a review of the 2016 presidential election and Democratic party candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s own vexing position within the news media as a bourgeois white woman who, throughout the campaign, was accused of criminal activity. By scrutinizing the proliferation of this particular performative framework by the media, I press for more reflective and unbiased journalistic coverage of women in the future.