description
This line of research serves as the entry point for all 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 different physical and virtual communities, 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, how that appropriation translates to rural spaces, and the emergence of digital literacies as a social phenomenon in physical and virtual communities in the city in contexts such as gaming. This line of work has also given us two of our main concepts to date: City as Literacy and Language-as-Victory.
At present, two main areas of inquiry support this line: Urban Literacies (Phase One and Phase Two, with Phase Three already underway) and Gaming Literacies ( Phase One and Phase Two, already underway). For the upcoming projects, we also plan to get more involved with some of our International Affiliates.
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 different physical and virtual communities, 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, how that appropriation translates to rural spaces, and the emergence of digital literacies as a social phenomenon in physical and virtual communities in the city in contexts such as gaming. This line of work has also given us two of our main concepts to date: City as Literacy and Language-as-Victory.
At present, two main areas of inquiry support this line: Urban Literacies (Phase One and Phase Two, with Phase Three already underway) and Gaming Literacies ( Phase One and Phase Two, already underway). For the upcoming projects, we also plan to get more involved with some of our International Affiliates.
CONCEPTS THAT SUPPORT OUR PROJECTS
- New Literacy Studies
- Multimodality
- Polylanguaging
- Metrolingualism
- Digital Literacies
- Gaming Literacies
- Urban Literacies
- Superdiversity
- Ethnography
- Geosemiotics
- Gamification
- Translanguaging