Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Language and Power

Edited by Ching-Ching Lin, Clara Vaz Bauler

Publication date:

12 December 2023

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800414723

In this book dialogue is used as a research, knowledge-sharing and community-building tool in which participants engage with each other in reflecting upon the perspectives of self and others: challenging, complementing and contradicting each other as critical peers. The book aims to be an enactment of sociological reimagination, as a way to reimagine public conversations that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodality around the intersection of identity (self), language (mediating mechanism) and power (sociocultural domain). Each chapter illustrates the use of dialogue as a participatory research tool as a way in which the sharing of knowledge and the growth of understanding occurs through meaning- and strategy-making processes. Together they present dialogue as an integrative model of self-inquiry and social activism and provide a valuable standpoint to understand the participatory nature of our very effort to question and investigate our sense of self in the world.

Contributors

Suresh Canagarajah: Foreword

Ching-Ching Lin and Clara Vaz Bauler: Introduction

Part 1: Dialogic Testimonio

Chapter 1. Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo, Laura C. Walls and Ferial Pearson: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Reflections on Trying to Fit into a Box

Chapter 2. Priscila Fabiane Farias, Leonardo da Silva and Litiane Barbosa Macedo: On the (Constant) Process of Becoming a Critical Language Educator in the Brazilian Context

Chapter 3. Sumeyra Gok and Angelina Gillispie: Unpacking Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Power Dynamics in Teacher Education through Intersectionality

Chapter 4. Kinsella Valies and Lisa M. Hunsberger: Black Women's Ibasho: Creating a Space of Belonging in Japan

Chapter 5. Lan Wang-Hiles, Ekaterina Goodroad, Tong Zhang and Judith Szerdahelyi: Negotiating Identity, Language and Power: Dialogic Reflections on Non-Native English-Speaking Writing Instructors in the US Composition Classroom

Part 2: Digitally-Mediated Public Scholarship

Chapter 6. Clara Vaz Bauler and Vanja Karanović: Twitter/X as Thinking Communities: Responding, Reacting and Acting on Linguistic Discrimination

Chapter 7. Ching-Ching Lin, Derek Baylor, Yasmeen Coaxum and Shuzhan Li: Forming Performative Space through Legitimate Peripheral Participation: Digitally-Mediated Dialogic Inquiry of Four BIPOC TESOL Professionals

Chapter 8. A.R. Shearer and Clara Vaz Bauler: Professional Communities in the Making: Critical Dialogues in the ELT Field

Chapter 9. JPB Gerald and Clara Vaz Bauler: Escaping the H-Index: On the Value and Voice of Public Engagement for Racialized Scholars

Part 3: Through a Critical Incident Lens

Chapter 10. Ribut Wahyudi and M. Faisol: When Daily Uses of Language, Identity and 'Power' Intersect with the Global (Center) versus Local (Periphery) Power Relations: An Interdisciplinary Study

Chapter 11. Luciana C. de Oliveira, Destini Braxon, Jia Gui and Tara Willging: A Critical Dialogue Among Participants in a Professional Learning Community

Chapter 12. Edmund Christopher Melville, Rasha Ashkar and Nicholas Douglas: Ebbs, Flows, What’s New is Old: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Three EFL Educators in Turkey

Chapter 13. Julia E. Kiernan, Joyce Meier and Xiqiao Wang: Critical Listening: A Teacher-Scholar Dialogue on the Challenges of Linguistically- and Culturally-Centered Coursework

Chapter 14. Wing Shuen Lau and Kristine Mensonides Gritter: Curiosity Matters: Envisioning Intercultural Dialogue in Qualitative Research Practice

Index

A provocative read! This innovative and risk-taking volume reimagines dialogue by putting it front and center as research method, demonstrating the potential of methods such as critical and collaborative authoethnography, dialogic testimonio, and digitally mediated public scholarship to uncover new insights in identity, language and power.