language priming en self

Language and Self-Construal Priming A Replication and Extension in a Hong Kong Sample Markus Kemmelmeier University of Nevada, markusk@unr.edu Belinda Yan-Ming Cheng University of Michigan Abstract Previous research has argued that language serves as a cognitive cue to reinforce culturally normative self-construals. We hypothesize that language-priming effects would be stronger for women than men and that they would primarily occur for self-construals that are not already latently salient in the respondents’ culture. Also, in contrast to earlier research on language priming of self-construals, we rely on Singelis’s independent and interdependent self-construal scales as closed-ended dependent measures. Using a bilingual sample from Hong Kong (n = 126), we experimentally varied questionnaire language (English vs. Chinese) and found support for all our predictions. The discussion focuses on cue strength as moderator of language-priming effects.

Language and Self

Hier een link naar een recent artikel over zelfde onderzoek als Huib en ik. Language and the Bicultural Self Michael Ross University of Waterloo, mross@uwaterloo.ca W. Q. Elaine Xun University of Waterloo Anne E. Wilson Wilfrid Laurier University Abstract In a study of bicultural individuals’ self-perceptions, Chinese-born students were randomly assigned to participate in either Chinese or English. Serving as controls, Canadian-born participants of either European or Chinese descent participated in English. The effects of the language manipulation paralleled findings in previous studies comparing East Asians to North Americans. Participants responding in Chinese reported more collective self-statements in open-ended self-descriptions, lower self-esteem on the Rosenberg scale, and more agreement with Chinese cultural views than did the remaining groups. In their self-descriptions, participants writing in Chinese provided similar numbers of favorable and unfavorable self-statements. The other groups reported more favorable self-statements. Participants reporting in Chinese indicated similar levels of positive and negative mood. The remaining groups reported more positive mood. The results suggest that East-Asian and Western identities may be stored in separate knowledge structures in bicultural individuals, with each structure activated by its associated language

English, identity en Malaysian English (success)

English, identity and the Malaysian workplace
Shanta Nair-Venugopal
Department of English Language and Literature Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2000
ABSTRACT

This paper, which is an outgrowth of an ethnographic study of code and style choice in two Malaysian business organizations, explains individual and institutional choices as locally motivated pragmatic selections within the specific contexts of the workplace settings and the larger Malaysian sociolinguistic context of English as the normative choice of Malaysian business and Malay as the lingua franca. Malaysian English (ME) as the prevailing sociolect emerged as the unmarked choice in Malaysian business, rather than approximations to exonormative models, such as Standard British English, thereby challenging traditionally imposed norms of speech in Malaysian business settings which are a legacy of British rule and business links. Localized speech variation was consistently demonstrated. Sub-variants of ME spoken in ethnically distinct ways, mainly in the prosody of the native languages of the speakers, as ethnolects, together with style shifting along the full varietal range of ME, and the code-mixing of English and Malay and code-switching into Malay, were the most common ways of speaking in these settings. They voice local notions of language and communication through ethnic speech diversity in the projection of specific social and cultural personae and identities.

identity and workplace

Identity and Language: Contributions to and Consequences of Speaking Spanish in the Workplace Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences February 2008 30: 40-68, first published on December 27, 2007

widdowson

Language spread = niet language distribution.
Als je spreekt van distribution dan ga je ervan uit dat taal een monolitisch ding is, een product, dat geexporteerd kan worden, als McDonalds of KFC. Dat werkt niet.
Is naief.

Als je spreekt van spread, dan is er sprake van een natuurlijk proces, waarbij taal ook veranderen kan, zich ontwikkelen kan, kan convergeren.

Uit Jenkins

taal en identiteit

Jenkins ELF attitude and identity

Geeft aan dat er ontwikkeling is in het bezien van identiteit;
Geeft aan dat er erkenning is voor de rol van macht, power en taalpolitiek (post structural). Attitude tov ELF beinvloed door docenten SLA (RP ideaal), maar de werkelijkheid haalt in, zorgt ervoor dat mensen meer dan 1 identiteit hebben, zorgt ervoor dat ELF gaat staan voor multilingualiteit, voor globaliteit, voor wereldburgerschap. Hoger aanzien.

Heeft onderzoek gedaan naar percepties docenten ELF/SLA

Arendt: invloed Heidegger; gaat nog niet erg over communicatie of taal of identiteit.
Heidegger: woordspelletjes. Sein und Zeit. Dasein. Besorgen.
Practische filosofie. Mens zijn is vooral werken en interageren met andere mensen, terwijl ze allemaal vrij zijn om zichzelf te zijn.
Overstap naar politiek.
Zie Sartre, zie ook Derrida.
Wat doet Arendt?
Geen idee.

Christopher Miles, Linking Second Language Use with Strategic Competence

Janet Holmes over taal at work en identity
Professional and personal identity at work: achieving a synthesis through intercultural workplace talk

Tollefson Planning Language, planning inequality
Zegt iets over taal, identiteit en werk. En het recht om in je eigen taal te werken, en de rol van politiek en macht, en over sociopolitieke visie op SLA

zegt dat 'nowhere is the failure to capture indivisual experience more evident than in regard to policies that require individuals to use a second langauge at work."

work instinct = niet work ethic
work ethic is associated with efficiency aimed at maximizing income from investment and with cost-benefit analysis. Daar past taal politiek van bovenaf opgelegd bij.
work instinct = dynamic relationship between one's work and one's self. what we do is what we feel we are. Therefore when individuals are not permitted to use their own languages at work, they are alienated not only from their work and the workplace, but from themselves. From this perspective, language policies that deny individuals the use of their own languages at work are unnatural, antihuman and, anticultural." p. 207
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