Su Yin Khor
Biographic Data
| ID | 9340386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Su Yin Khor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Su Yin |
| FAMILY NAME | Khor |
| SIGNATURE | KHOR S Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2207-9007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
(Im)migrant women’s translingual literacy practices as problem-solving and learning resources
This paper calls for an expansion of translingual studies to include the examination of learners beyond university contexts to further our understanding of translingual literacies and practices. The authors present findings from a larger ethnographic study about practices and repertoires that (im)migrant women mobilize and employ when learning how to write in a community-based English literacy program. The study provides insights into the interse…
Brown, Roger
Roger Brown (1925–1997) was an American psychologist whose work contributed to the understanding of child development and, in particular, child language acquisition. He received his degree in psychology, and later started his academic journey at Harvard University in 1952 as an instructor in social psychology, before going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He spent five years at MIT before he returned to Harvard in 1962 as profe…
Skinner, B.F
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) was an American psychologist and inventor whose research and work heavily influenced and shaped psychology, leading to the emergence of experimental psychology, which significantly changed the way psychology was studied at the time. Although his research centered on psychology, his behaviorist approach was used in other related fields, such as language learning and acquisition
Austin, J.L. (John Langshaw)
John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960) was a British philosopher whose work contributed to the understanding of philosophy and language. In his work on language, he is mostly known for his work on speech acts . He presented this theory at Harvard University in 1955 as part of the William James Lectures, and subsequently, and portions of it were later published in How to Do Things with Words (1962), his most influential work. Specifically, Austin argued…
Grice, H. Paul
Herbert Paul Grice (1913–1988) was a British philosopher, educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He held several appointments at various institutions, such as Oxford, before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. His work has heavily influenced the field of philosophy of language. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on meaning , and theory of implicature, particularly the Cooperative Pr…
Volition
Volition refers to the intentionality of an action, and specifically whether the subject or the agent intended the action or not. It is marked linguistically in a language and there is no universal way of marking volition. In addition, it can be expressed by, for example, using adverbs, grammatical morphemes in the form of affixes, or case markings
Tone Systems, Pitch, and Intonation
Differences in physical “pitch” (the perceptual response to different frequencies of sound) is a fundamental characteristic of all languages. This entry focuses on three important conceptual constructs, all dealing with sound contours: “tone languages,” “pitch‐accent languages,” and “intonation languages” (sometimes also called “tonal languages,” “accent languages,” and “stress languages”). Generally speaking, tone is usually regarded as a featur…
Language and Identity
The relationship between language and identity is a topic of major interest in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, psychology, applied linguistics, and education. Identity can be approached in a number of ways, from individual projections (such as the use of attribution labels or self‐identifiers) to more “primordial” characteristics (such as those involving gender, race, or ethnicity). Contemporary work has show…
Vygotsky, Lev
Lev Semionovich Vygotsky (1896–1934) was a psychologist whose work has been highly influential in language and education research. Specifically, sociocultural theory and its core concepts, most notably the zone of proximal development, mediation, activity theory, and internalization, have been widely used by scholars to understand language learning and development
Maledictive Language
Across cultures and domains in society, there is language that is seen as inappropriate, sacrilegious, or taboo. What topics or language are considered as such depends on the time and place, but they commonly derive from and refer to religion, sex, and diseases, and bodily fluids or functions. Since birth, we have been socialized to use appropriate language. While we are aware of the existence of such language, we censor it in multiple public dom…
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975) was a Russian philosopher whose work heavily influenced philosophy, language, and literary criticism. He completed his studies in 1918 and graduated from St. Petersburg State University. After graduating, he worked as a high school teacher in Nevel, and it was in Nevel where the first Bakhtinian Circle was formed. Many of his ideas were developed during this time in the group. Much of Bakhtin's work has co…
Definiteness, Grammatical
Definiteness refers to the identifiability and non‐identifiability of referents in a particular context, i.e. the level of specificity of the referent can be established with a determiner. In English, this is most commonly expressed using determiners, such as a/an and any to mark indefiniteness, whereas determiners like the , this , and that mark definiteness. In some other languages, such as Swedish, affixes are used. The grammatical information…
Gumperz, John J
John J. Gumperz (1922–2013) was an American linguist whose work on speech and social groups greatly influenced sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse analysis. After returning from fieldwork in India, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley where he remained until his death. With Dell Hymes, he developed a discourse analytic method drawing on ethnography for analyzing communication that considers the comm…
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Brown, Roger
Roger Brown (1925–1997) was an American psychologist whose work contributed to the understanding of child development and, in particular, child language acquisition. He received his degree in psychology, and later started his academic journey at Harvard University in 1952 as an instructor in social psychology, before going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He spent five years at MIT before he returned to Harvard in 1962 as profe…
Skinner, B.F
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) was an American psychologist and inventor whose research and work heavily influenced and shaped psychology, leading to the emergence of experimental psychology, which significantly changed the way psychology was studied at the time. Although his research centered on psychology, his behaviorist approach was used in other related fields, such as language learning and acquisition
Austin, J.L. (John Langshaw)
John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960) was a British philosopher whose work contributed to the understanding of philosophy and language. In his work on language, he is mostly known for his work on speech acts . He presented this theory at Harvard University in 1955 as part of the William James Lectures, and subsequently, and portions of it were later published in How to Do Things with Words (1962), his most influential work. Specifically, Austin argued…
Grice, H. Paul
Herbert Paul Grice (1913–1988) was a British philosopher, educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He held several appointments at various institutions, such as Oxford, before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. His work has heavily influenced the field of philosophy of language. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on meaning , and theory of implicature, particularly the Cooperative Pr…
Volition
Volition refers to the intentionality of an action, and specifically whether the subject or the agent intended the action or not. It is marked linguistically in a language and there is no universal way of marking volition. In addition, it can be expressed by, for example, using adverbs, grammatical morphemes in the form of affixes, or case markings
Tone Systems, Pitch, and Intonation
Differences in physical “pitch” (the perceptual response to different frequencies of sound) is a fundamental characteristic of all languages. This entry focuses on three important conceptual constructs, all dealing with sound contours: “tone languages,” “pitch‐accent languages,” and “intonation languages” (sometimes also called “tonal languages,” “accent languages,” and “stress languages”). Generally speaking, tone is usually regarded as a featur…
Language and Identity
The relationship between language and identity is a topic of major interest in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, psychology, applied linguistics, and education. Identity can be approached in a number of ways, from individual projections (such as the use of attribution labels or self‐identifiers) to more “primordial” characteristics (such as those involving gender, race, or ethnicity). Contemporary work has show…
Vygotsky, Lev
Lev Semionovich Vygotsky (1896–1934) was a psychologist whose work has been highly influential in language and education research. Specifically, sociocultural theory and its core concepts, most notably the zone of proximal development, mediation, activity theory, and internalization, have been widely used by scholars to understand language learning and development
Maledictive Language
Across cultures and domains in society, there is language that is seen as inappropriate, sacrilegious, or taboo. What topics or language are considered as such depends on the time and place, but they commonly derive from and refer to religion, sex, and diseases, and bodily fluids or functions. Since birth, we have been socialized to use appropriate language. While we are aware of the existence of such language, we censor it in multiple public dom…
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975) was a Russian philosopher whose work heavily influenced philosophy, language, and literary criticism. He completed his studies in 1918 and graduated from St. Petersburg State University. After graduating, he worked as a high school teacher in Nevel, and it was in Nevel where the first Bakhtinian Circle was formed. Many of his ideas were developed during this time in the group. Much of Bakhtin's work has co…
Definiteness, Grammatical
Definiteness refers to the identifiability and non‐identifiability of referents in a particular context, i.e. the level of specificity of the referent can be established with a determiner. In English, this is most commonly expressed using determiners, such as a/an and any to mark indefiniteness, whereas determiners like the , this , and that mark definiteness. In some other languages, such as Swedish, affixes are used. The grammatical information…
Gumperz, John J
John J. Gumperz (1922–2013) was an American linguist whose work on speech and social groups greatly influenced sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse analysis. After returning from fieldwork in India, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley where he remained until his death. With Dell Hymes, he developed a discourse analytic method drawing on ethnography for analyzing communication that considers the comm…
(Im)migrant women’s translingual literacy practices as problem-solving and learning resources
This paper calls for an expansion of translingual studies to include the examination of learners beyond university contexts to further our understanding of translingual literacies and practices. The authors present findings from a larger ethnographic study about practices and repertoires that (im)migrant women mobilize and employ when learning how to write in a community-based English literacy program. The study provides insights into the interse…
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