University of Exeter Press
Language and Identity in the University
Exploring Marginality and Liminality in Higher Education
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Language and Identity in the University is an exploration of the relationship between language and the construction of identities in Higher Education contexts and what this relationship reveals about marginality and liminality. Bringing together studies by researchers and practitioners around the globe, chapters analyse real-world issues and consider how universities as monolingual or plurilingual spaces impact the types of identities available to academics and students. The book is underpinned by an ethos of diversity, seeking to reflect and give voice to liminal and marginal communities.
Contributions include a novel analysis of STEM undergraduates studying languages in the UK, the effect of English language policy in the Algerian HE context, how Deaf academics navigate their identities through language in a UK context, how English-Medium Instruction impacts professional identities at a Spanish university, how fragile academic identities emerge among undergraduates through feedback interactions, the multiple linguistic landscapes of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the USA, the effects of exile, displacement and migration on identities, and how political realities impinge on academic identities.
This volume will be an invaluable resource for academics and students studying language and identity in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, as well as for EAP practitioners, language lecturers, EMI lecturers, TESOL lecturers, and academics in education.
Languages really matter, and everyone involved in Higher Education needs to pay attention to them. This book's strength lies in its diversity. Every chapter has its own intrinsic and specific value, but collectively they clearly demonstrate the complex ways that languages and (in)attention to them can impact the lives and identities of students, staff and institutions: creating, enabling, disabling, connecting or excluding. An excellent book!
Bee Bond, Professor of English for Academic Purposes, University of Leeds
Introduction Jules Winchester
DOI: 10.47788/XIMF4847
1. Contested hybridities and powerful selves: becoming multilingual at the margins of the STEM curriculum Iria González-Becerra
DOI: 10.47788/GZWV7506
2. Migration, mobility, and multilingual identity: a critical realist perspective on the evolving language repertoire of an undergraduate language student Sibylle Ratz
DOI: 10.47788/QCNN7174
3. Developing ‘fragile’ academic identities in HE: a discursive psychological analysis of identity positioning in tutor feedback on essay writing Neil McLean
DOI: 10.47788/BIUO4382
4. Deaf academics in the university in the UK Dai O’Brien
DOI: 10.47788/EKSS1706
5. The negotiation of EMI professional identities: tensions between self-inhabited and other-ascribed positionings Balbina Moncada-Comas
DOI: 10.47788/GZCF8466
6. From French to English: shifting academic identities and liminal spaces in Algerian higher education Souad Boumechaal and Judith Hanks
DOI: 10.47788/QXRH3866
7. ‘Not hired, but hosted’: the identities of displaced academics in UK HE institutions Michael Beaney
DOI: 10.47788/PNLW9851
8. Identity in the online linguistic landscape of Midwestern Hispanic-Serving Institutions Richard W. Hallett and Brooke Mullins
DOI: 10.47788/AKXW6368
9. Digital transformation discourse: a critical analysis of the representation of educators and social relations in a case study university Michelle Evans
DOI: 10.47788/DIXN1142
Conclusion: Language and identities in higher education: implications and recommendations Yolanda Cerdá
DOI: 10.47788/ZMNS7360
