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Lost and Found: Conflict in Transnationals’ Writing Identity
Troy Crawford * crawford@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0001-5403-1476 * ResearcherID: Q-2908-2018
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department
Irasema Mora-Pablo * imora@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0001-8532-5522 * ResearcherID: R-1524-2018
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department
M. Martha Lengeling * lengelin@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0002-2570-5002 * ResearcherID: R-5491-2018
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department
Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2018, 1(2), 21-34 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0102.01021c
Online Published Date: 24 October 2018
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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KEY WORDS: bilingual writing identity, ethnography, language mobility, transnationals.
ABSTRACT:
The theme of identity has been researched extensively in the past twenty years and continues to be a significant topic to be researched inside the flied of applied linguistics (Burr, 2003; Charon, 1998; Hall, 2002; Norton, 2000, 2013; Vieira, 2016; 2018). Oddly, bilingual writers engaged in professional academic writing rarely verbalize the processes they apply when writing. In this article, we make use of multiple academic conversations and written interview data to propose an important adaptation to a conceptual model that reflects the complexities experienced by professional bilingual academic writers when involved in the act of writing. Furthermore, the data sheds light on the difficulties of geographical transition in writing, as well as the mobility of literacy.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Troy Crawford, University of Guanajuato, Language Department, Calzada de Gpe. S/N, Guanajuato, Gto. 36000, MEXICO. E-mail: crawford@ugto.mx.
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