description
This line of research is one of our two points of entry for our Novice Researchers, as the topics provide (as famed qualitative researcher Dr. Patty Lather once pointed out after one of our presentations at ICQI) an engaging entry point for undergraduate researchers.
Through this line of inquiry, we wish to explore how English (and other languages) appear in the city. We are interested in discovering how people are already using English and other second languages in the different communities that make part of our urban (and rural) spaces, keeping in mind the linguistic, semiotic, and aesthetic dimensions of literacy practices. Research in this line will describe and analyze how people are appropriating second languages in urban spaces of the city and how that appropriation translates to rural spaces. This line of work has also given us one of our two main concepts to date: City as Literacy.
At present, our Urban Literacies quasi-longitudinal study (spanning three phases since 2013) has moved from the physical (Phase One) to cultural (Phase Two) to the collective community spaces (Phase Three) that continue to recreate and rethink Medellín as a growing plurilingual city.
CONCEPTS THAT SUPPORT OUR PROJECTS
Through this line of inquiry, we wish to explore how English (and other languages) appear in the city. We are interested in discovering how people are already using English and other second languages in the different communities that make part of our urban (and rural) spaces, keeping in mind the linguistic, semiotic, and aesthetic dimensions of literacy practices. Research in this line will describe and analyze how people are appropriating second languages in urban spaces of the city and how that appropriation translates to rural spaces. This line of work has also given us one of our two main concepts to date: City as Literacy.
At present, our Urban Literacies quasi-longitudinal study (spanning three phases since 2013) has moved from the physical (Phase One) to cultural (Phase Two) to the collective community spaces (Phase Three) that continue to recreate and rethink Medellín as a growing plurilingual city.
CONCEPTS THAT SUPPORT OUR PROJECTS
- New Literacy Studies
- Multimodality
- Polylanguaging
- Metrolingualism
- Urban Literacies
- Superdiversity
- Ethnography
- Geosemiotics
- Translanguaging