English, Israel, and globalization: A sociohistoric study on language and cultural shift
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor Prior, Paul
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: United States -- Illinois
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2009
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
270 pages
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: United States -- Illinois
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
During the past twenty years, Israeli society has been undergoing language and cultural shift, as it moves from the socialist and Zionist ideals of the kibbutz to a capitalist system based on global hi-tech industries. Accompanying this move has been a transformation in Israeli identity from a focus on the collective to the individual, and from Hebrew as the dominant language to a situation in which English is commonplace in many domains. In order to study these language and culture shifts in everyday literate activities, this dissertation examines multilingual (primarily Hebrew and English) and multimodal literacy practices across a range of contexts: popular culture (a men's magazine), an English language learning classroom, and a hi-tech company. In making these moves, this dissertation argues for a sociohistoric framework to link situated multilingual reading, writing, speaking, and design practices to wider institutional, cultural, national, and global contexts. Moving away from bounded notions of language, this dissertation argues for close attention to what Engestrنm calls knotworking, the tying and untying of tools, texts, objects, and people, for tracing the ways global ecologies of language and culture are constituted in everyday mundane and routine literacy activities. This research also responds to calls in Writing Studies for understanding English writing in relation to other languages and the context of globalization. In answering that call, this dissertation offers fine grained descriptions of multilingual-multimodal literacy practices, which it argues are key to challenging the monolingual assumptions on which much composition scholarship and teaching has been based.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
English as a Second Language
موضوع مستند نشده
Technical Communication
موضوع مستند نشده
Rhetoric
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Sociocultural
اصطلاح موضوعی
Technical communication
اصطلاح موضوعی
Israel
اصطلاح موضوعی
English as a second language
اصطلاح موضوعی
Multilingualism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural shift
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