Exploring Identity through Literature and Language: Adolescents' Identity Positioning in Rural Appalachia

Autor/in	Slocum, Audra
Titel	Exploring Identity through Literature and Language: Adolescents' Identity Positioning in Rural Appalachia
Quelle	In: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 18 (2019) 5, S.283-296 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8458
DOI	10.1080/15348458.2019.1612749
Schlagwörter	Females; Student Attitudes; Self Concept; Rural Areas; Ethnography; High School Teachers; High School Seniors; Teacher Researchers; Definitions; Language Usage; Power Structure; Social Status; Speech Communication; Geographic Regions; Teacher Characteristics; Student Characteristics; Classroom Communication; Peer Relationship; English; Language Attitudes; Social Attitudes; Nonstandard Dialects + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Schülerverhalten; Selbstkonzept; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ethnografie; High school; High schools; Teacher; Teachers; Oberschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerforschung; Begriffsbestimmung; Sprachgebrauch; Sozialer Status; Klassengespräch; Peer-Beziehungen; English language; Englisch; Sprachverhalten; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	This article centers on the discursive moves that two adolescent girls in rural Appalachia use to negotiate dominant discourses regarding Appalachian identity and language. The data is drawn from a year-long critical ethnographic teacher-researcher study in a senior English class located within a rural high school in the Appalachian region of the United States. Data analysis indicates that the adolescents in this study constructed local definitions and identity positions regarding language usage that complicated the dominant discourses of Appalachian identities. This study suggests that attending to local relations of power regarding language reveals both the implications and the disruptions in the dominance of mainstream speech patterns for Appalachian adolescents' social positioning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01