Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics
Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics
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DOI：
10.1017/s0267190514000191
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Norton, Bonny
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作者：
Darvin, Ron;Norton, Bonny
本文将诺顿关于身份和投资的基础性工作定位于应用语言学的社会转向。它讨论了它的历史动力和理论基础，并说明了这些思想是如何在最近的学术研究中被采纳的。为了应对世界新秩序的需求，在技术的推动下，以流动性为特征，它提出了一种综合的投资模式，这种模式发生在身份、意识形态和资本的交叉点。该模型认识到，语言习得和社会化发生的空间已经变得越来越无疆域化和无界化，控制的系统模式更加不可见。这就需要新的问题、分析和认同理论。该模型满足了学习者的需求，这些学习者在在线和离线环境中导航，并执行变得更加流动和复杂的身份。因此，它建议对身份、投资和语言学习之间的关系进行更全面和批判性的考察。该模型通过对乌干达农村地区的女性语言学习者和加拿大城市地区的男性语言学习者的两个案例研究，说明了结构和能动性如何跨越时间和空间，赋予或拒绝学习者说话的权力。
This article locates Norton's foundational work on identity and investment within the social turn of applied linguistics. It discusses its historical impetus and theoretical anchors, and it illustrates how these ideas have been taken up in recent scholarship. In response to the demands of the new world order, spurred by technology and characterized by mobility, it proposes a comprehensive model of investment, which occurs at the intersection of identity, ideology, and capital. The model recognizes that the spaces in which language acquisition and socialization take place have become increasingly deterritorialized and unbounded, and the systemic patterns of control more invisible. This calls for new questions, analyses, and theories of identity. The model addresses the needs of learners who navigate their way through online and offline contexts and perform identities that have become more fluid and complex. As such, it proposes a more comprehensive and critical examination of the relationship between identity, investment, and language learning. Drawing on two case studies of a female language learner in rural Uganda and a male language learner in urban Canada, the model illustrates how structure and agency, operating across time and space, can accord or refuse learners the power to speak.