{"id":7787,"date":"2015-05-29T07:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T07:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2015-05-29T07:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T07:42:34","slug":"research-seminar-with-suresh-canagarajah-theorizing-a-language-competence-for-negotiating-superdiversity-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7787","title":{"rendered":"Research seminar with Suresh Canagarajah: Theorizing a Language Competence for Negotiating Superdiversity, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

This looks like an extremely interesting seminar from Suresh Canagarajah being held in London at the\u00a0UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics on July 1st. Please see below for more details:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Theorizing a Language Competence for Negotiating Superdiversity<\/strong>
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\nSuresh Canagarajah<\/strong>
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17:00-18:00<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Wednesday 1st<\/sup>\u00a0July 2015<\/strong>
\nRoom 642, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL<\/div>\n
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Abstract:<\/strong> Mary Louise Pratt (1987) initiated an important line of inquiry when she called for a shift from \u201ca linguistics of community\u201d to a \u201clinguistics of contact.\u201d We are finding this reorientation gaining urgency as we grapple with communication in conditions of late modern globalization, featuring migration, diaspora relationships, superdiverse urban settlements, digital media scapes, and transnational economic and production relationships. We realize now that Pratt\u2019s (1991) notion of the \u201ccontact zone\u201d is not a secondary space between the more primary \u201ccommunity.\u201d All communities are contact zones that involve interactions between diverse languages and cultures. From this perspective, attempts to territorialize and circumscribe communities and languages in dominant theories of language competence appear misleading. As we break away from the notion of bounded communities and attend to communication in the liminal spaces of contact, we face new questions confronting language competence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In this talk, I consider how we can retheorize competence for negotiating superdiversity. I base my theorization on the narratives of 65 migrant professionals in English-dominant countries (i.e., USA, UK, Australia, and South Africa) interviewed in ongoing migration research. Our subjects treat competence in terms of practices to be adopted to negotiate difference, and don\u2019t treat gramar as primary. They treat successful communication as deriving from the ability to collaborate with interlocutors by drawing from diverse ecological resources in layered sociotemporal contexts for the situated co-construction of indexicality. They state that they have developed this competence from their socialization in their native multilingual communities and the ongoing development of suitable dispositions in global context zones. I demonstrate how their orientation to competence differs from the traditional cognitive-lingual paradigm and the emergent social approaches.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Suresh Canagarajah is\u00a0<\/strong>Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies, and Director of the Migration Studies Project at Penn State University, USA, and a past President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics. His publications include\u00a0Translingual practice: Global Englishes and cosmopolitan relations;<\/em>\u00a0Literacy as translingual practice: Between communities and classrooms;<\/em>\u00a0Christian and critical English language educators in dialogue<\/em>;\u00a0Reclaiming the local in language policy and practice<\/em>;\u00a0Critical academic writing and multilingual students; A geopolitics of academic writing<\/em>; and\u00a0Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This looks like an extremely interesting seminar from Suresh Canagarajah being held in London at the\u00a0UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics on July 1st. Please see below for more details:\u00a0 Theorizing a Language Competence for Negotiating Superdiversity \u00a0 Suresh Canagarajah Pennsylvania State University 17:00-18:00\u00a0Wednesday 1st\u00a0July 2015 Room 642, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Abstract: Mary Louise Pratt (1987) initiated an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,382,342],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-21B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7791,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions\/7791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}