C Higgins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4862 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Higgins |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Higgins |
| ASSINATURA | HIGGINS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9527-6872 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Norton, Bonny
Bonny Norton is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, where she has received both the Killam Teaching Award and the Killam Research Prize for her exemplary contributions to the field of applied linguistics. In 2011, Norton became the inaugural recipient of the “Second Language Leadership Through Research” Award from the American Educ…
At an Epistemological Crossroads
Toward un-Weirding academic publishing about language [Applied Linguistics]
In this commentary, I reflect on the shortcomings in representing linguistic knowledge in academic publishing. While Klein's 1989 article Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel calls attention to the overproduction of scholarly knowledge in the context of publish or perish ideologies, I invite us to consider how we distribute knowledge within the spaces of academic p…
Constructing membership in the in-group
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists co-construct their identities as members of the same culture by producing talk that aligns them with several shared membership categories (Sacks 1972, 1979, 1992). The speakers propose and subsequently reaffirm, resist, or transform the categories ‘Westernized’ and ‘ethnically marked’ in order to align or realign themselves as co-members of the same group of white collar workers. In the f…
Journal Editor's Preface to the Special Issue
This journal defines applied linguistics as ‘research into language with relevance to real-world issues’. Due to their longstanding commitments to applied linguistics and social justice, Netta Avineri and Danny C. Martinez, the editors of this special issue, were invited to assemble a collection of papers that showcases how applied linguists have developed collaborations with stakeholders outside of academia to collaboratively address inequalitie…
The materialization of language in tourism networks
This article traces how new linguistic practices emerge alongside the development of tourism in Hawai‘i and Japan. We trace and describe two networks of tourism to illustrate how signs, speech, and embodied communication materialize in actor networks. We frame these new spatial repertoires as examples of language learning and language change that occurs as an effect of human mobility intersecting with material affordances in new environments. We …
Localizing the transnational call center industry
This study considers whether localized language training for call centers can fruitfully challenge the homogenizing principles of call center practices by examining a training program that aimed to familiarize offshore call center workers with Pidgin, the creole language that is widely spoken in Hawaiʻi. Call center agents in Dominica were familiarized with key aspects of Pidgin relevant to call center work, including the expression of empathy in…
The dynamics of Hawaiian speakerhood in the family
While the majority of studies onnew speakersfocuses on language use in educational and community contexts, the family is becoming an increasingly relevant site since new speakers are now incorporating their languages into their home life. This article reports on how people of Native Hawaiian ancestry express their speakerhood with regard to their use of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language, in the context of the family. It explores Hawaiians'…
The mesolevel of family language policy
Research on Family Language Policy (FLP) has developed a great deal over the past decade, as a number of important volumes and studies have recently addressed not only how families navigate the use
Space, place, and language
This chapter discusses the spatial turn that emerged in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s and discusses what it can offer to the study of language, migration, and mobility. It examines work in applied linguistics that has engaged with the view of language practices as spatial practices and considers how this view reframes lines of inquiry in language and migration. The chapter also discusses how a spatial approach helps to make …
Authorization and illegitimation among biomedical doctors and indigenous healers in Tanzania
This paper analyzes interactions that took place during a set of workshops involving biomedical doctors and indigenous healers in northern Tanzania which promoted the use of indigenous knowledge in public health education and training. Such workshops are needed since, despite their success in treating patients for a number of health problems, healers are still misrepresented in the media and in wider society and are often confused with witchdocto…
Intersecting scapes and new millennium identities in language learning
This paper examines how flows of people, media, money, technology, and ideologies move through the world, with attention to how these scapes (Appadurai 1990, 1996, 2013) shape identity construction among language learners, both in and out of classrooms. After illustrating intersecting scapes in sociolinguistic terms, I explore the relevance of these ideas to identity formation among language learners, using three case studies. First, I examine th…
Insults or Acts of Identity? The Role of Stylization in Multilingual Discourse
This article discusses how stylization sheds light on the role of authenticity as an increasingly relevant concept in sociolinguistics. Building on research on style, crossing, and mock language use, the article demonstrates how multilingual stylization provides speakers with a wider range of resources for navigating and negotiating borders and identities. Stylization is increasingly important since modernist linkages between language and the cat…
Constructing identities through literacy events in HIV/Aids education
This article examines the literacy events in HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania to investigate how they construct social identities for participants and to what extent they provide opportunities for critical health literacies. The projects took place as collaborative research partnerships with local Tanzanian NGOs in an effort to analyse and improve existing educational practices. Within the framework of multiliteracies, critical health literacies ha…
Styling Hawai‘i in Haole wood
Styling Hawai‘i in Haole wood
Language learning as a site for belonging
Through analyzing narratives of Korean heritage language (HL) users, this article explores whether and to what degree these language users experience social inclusion and a sense of belonging in Korean society. We expand the field of HL research by investigating the experiences of four Korean-born, US-raised adoptee-returnees who currently reside in Seoul, South Korea and speak Korean as an additional language. We employ ethnographically-informed…
English as a Local Language
When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace conversation, beauty pageants, hip hop and advertising…
Translating lives
Discourse and identity
Discourse and identity, edited by A. de Fina, D. Schiffrin, and M. Bamberg, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, xii + 462 pp., $96.00 (hard back), ISBN 0-521-83402-3 This edited volume off
Discursive enactments of the World Health Organization’s policies
Language in and out of the classroom
A colloquium presented at the Second Language Research Forum on 16 October 2008 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shifting tactics of intersubjectivity to align indexicalities
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists employ various tactics of intersubjectivity to achieve mutual understanding during a conversation at work. The analysis focuses on one particularly challenging episode of talk wherein political figures and clothing styles from the early days of African independence are referenced, and an ensuing joke about body image is made using the phrase kumaintain figure ‘to maintain figure’ in refer…
"Ownership" of English in the Outer Circle
The linguistic classie cation of English speakers from outer-circle countries, such as India, Malaysia, and Singapore, is often ambiguous because the Englishes they speak are considered different from interlanguages yet are not considered native varieties. This study investigates whether outer-circle speakers can be viewed as equivalent to speakers of mother-tongue varieties in terms of their ownership of English (Norton, 1997), that is, the degr…
"Ownership" of English in the Outer Circle
The linguistic classie cation of English speakers from outer-circle countries, such as India, Malaysia, and Singapore, is often ambiguous because the Englishes they speak are considered different from interlanguages yet are not considered native varieties. This study investigates whether outer-circle speakers can be viewed as equivalent to speakers of mother-tongue varieties in terms of their ownership of English (Norton, 1997), that is, the degr…
The mesolevel of family language policy
Research on Family Language Policy (FLP) has developed a great deal over the past decade, as a number of important volumes and studies have recently addressed not only how families navigate the use
Shifting tactics of intersubjectivity to align indexicalities
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists employ various tactics of intersubjectivity to achieve mutual understanding during a conversation at work. The analysis focuses on one particularly challenging episode of talk wherein political figures and clothing styles from the early days of African independence are referenced, and an ensuing joke about body image is made using the phrase kumaintain figure ‘to maintain figure’ in refer…
Discursive enactments of the World Health Organization’s policies
The dynamics of Hawaiian speakerhood in the family
While the majority of studies onnew speakersfocuses on language use in educational and community contexts, the family is becoming an increasingly relevant site since new speakers are now incorporating their languages into their home life. This article reports on how people of Native Hawaiian ancestry express their speakerhood with regard to their use of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language, in the context of the family. It explores Hawaiians'…
Intersecting scapes and new millennium identities in language learning
This paper examines how flows of people, media, money, technology, and ideologies move through the world, with attention to how these scapes (Appadurai 1990, 1996, 2013) shape identity construction among language learners, both in and out of classrooms. After illustrating intersecting scapes in sociolinguistic terms, I explore the relevance of these ideas to identity formation among language learners, using three case studies. First, I examine th…
Insults or Acts of Identity? The Role of Stylization in Multilingual Discourse
This article discusses how stylization sheds light on the role of authenticity as an increasingly relevant concept in sociolinguistics. Building on research on style, crossing, and mock language use, the article demonstrates how multilingual stylization provides speakers with a wider range of resources for navigating and negotiating borders and identities. Stylization is increasingly important since modernist linkages between language and the cat…
Styling Hawai‘i in Haole wood
Constructing identities through literacy events in HIV/Aids education
This article examines the literacy events in HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania to investigate how they construct social identities for participants and to what extent they provide opportunities for critical health literacies. The projects took place as collaborative research partnerships with local Tanzanian NGOs in an effort to analyse and improve existing educational practices. Within the framework of multiliteracies, critical health literacies ha…
"Ownership" of English in the Outer Circle
The linguistic classie cation of English speakers from outer-circle countries, such as India, Malaysia, and Singapore, is often ambiguous because the Englishes they speak are considered different from interlanguages yet are not considered native varieties. This study investigates whether outer-circle speakers can be viewed as equivalent to speakers of mother-tongue varieties in terms of their ownership of English (Norton, 1997), that is, the degr…
Shifting tactics of intersubjectivity to align indexicalities
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists employ various tactics of intersubjectivity to achieve mutual understanding during a conversation at work. The analysis focuses on one particularly challenging episode of talk wherein political figures and clothing styles from the early days of African independence are referenced, and an ensuing joke about body image is made using the phrase kumaintain figure ‘to maintain figure’ in refer…
English as a Local Language
When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace conversation, beauty pageants, hip hop and advertising…
Translating lives
Discourse and identity
Discourse and identity, edited by A. de Fina, D. Schiffrin, and M. Bamberg, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, xii + 462 pp., $96.00 (hard back), ISBN 0-521-83402-3 This edited volume off
Discursive enactments of the World Health Organization’s policies
Language in and out of the classroom
A colloquium presented at the Second Language Research Forum on 16 October 2008 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Language learning as a site for belonging
Through analyzing narratives of Korean heritage language (HL) users, this article explores whether and to what degree these language users experience social inclusion and a sense of belonging in Korean society. We expand the field of HL research by investigating the experiences of four Korean-born, US-raised adoptee-returnees who currently reside in Seoul, South Korea and speak Korean as an additional language. We employ ethnographically-informed…
Styling Hawai‘i in Haole wood
Styling Hawai‘i in Haole wood
Constructing identities through literacy events in HIV/Aids education
This article examines the literacy events in HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania to investigate how they construct social identities for participants and to what extent they provide opportunities for critical health literacies. The projects took place as collaborative research partnerships with local Tanzanian NGOs in an effort to analyse and improve existing educational practices. Within the framework of multiliteracies, critical health literacies ha…
Intersecting scapes and new millennium identities in language learning
This paper examines how flows of people, media, money, technology, and ideologies move through the world, with attention to how these scapes (Appadurai 1990, 1996, 2013) shape identity construction among language learners, both in and out of classrooms. After illustrating intersecting scapes in sociolinguistic terms, I explore the relevance of these ideas to identity formation among language learners, using three case studies. First, I examine th…
Insults or Acts of Identity? The Role of Stylization in Multilingual Discourse
This article discusses how stylization sheds light on the role of authenticity as an increasingly relevant concept in sociolinguistics. Building on research on style, crossing, and mock language use, the article demonstrates how multilingual stylization provides speakers with a wider range of resources for navigating and negotiating borders and identities. Stylization is increasingly important since modernist linkages between language and the cat…
Authorization and illegitimation among biomedical doctors and indigenous healers in Tanzania
This paper analyzes interactions that took place during a set of workshops involving biomedical doctors and indigenous healers in northern Tanzania which promoted the use of indigenous knowledge in public health education and training. Such workshops are needed since, despite their success in treating patients for a number of health problems, healers are still misrepresented in the media and in wider society and are often confused with witchdocto…
Space, place, and language
This chapter discusses the spatial turn that emerged in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s and discusses what it can offer to the study of language, migration, and mobility. It examines work in applied linguistics that has engaged with the view of language practices as spatial practices and considers how this view reframes lines of inquiry in language and migration. The chapter also discusses how a spatial approach helps to make …
The mesolevel of family language policy
Research on Family Language Policy (FLP) has developed a great deal over the past decade, as a number of important volumes and studies have recently addressed not only how families navigate the use
The dynamics of Hawaiian speakerhood in the family
While the majority of studies onnew speakersfocuses on language use in educational and community contexts, the family is becoming an increasingly relevant site since new speakers are now incorporating their languages into their home life. This article reports on how people of Native Hawaiian ancestry express their speakerhood with regard to their use of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language, in the context of the family. It explores Hawaiians'…
Localizing the transnational call center industry
This study considers whether localized language training for call centers can fruitfully challenge the homogenizing principles of call center practices by examining a training program that aimed to familiarize offshore call center workers with Pidgin, the creole language that is widely spoken in Hawaiʻi. Call center agents in Dominica were familiarized with key aspects of Pidgin relevant to call center work, including the expression of empathy in…
Journal Editor's Preface to the Special Issue
This journal defines applied linguistics as ‘research into language with relevance to real-world issues’. Due to their longstanding commitments to applied linguistics and social justice, Netta Avineri and Danny C. Martinez, the editors of this special issue, were invited to assemble a collection of papers that showcases how applied linguists have developed collaborations with stakeholders outside of academia to collaboratively address inequalitie…
The materialization of language in tourism networks
This article traces how new linguistic practices emerge alongside the development of tourism in Hawai‘i and Japan. We trace and describe two networks of tourism to illustrate how signs, speech, and embodied communication materialize in actor networks. We frame these new spatial repertoires as examples of language learning and language change that occurs as an effect of human mobility intersecting with material affordances in new environments. We …
Constructing membership in the in-group
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists co-construct their identities as members of the same culture by producing talk that aligns them with several shared membership categories (Sacks 1972, 1979, 1992). The speakers propose and subsequently reaffirm, resist, or transform the categories ‘Westernized’ and ‘ethnically marked’ in order to align or realign themselves as co-members of the same group of white collar workers. In the f…
Toward un-Weirding academic publishing about language [Applied Linguistics]
In this commentary, I reflect on the shortcomings in representing linguistic knowledge in academic publishing. While Klein's 1989 article Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel calls attention to the overproduction of scholarly knowledge in the context of publish or perish ideologies, I invite us to consider how we distribute knowledge within the spaces of academic p…
At an Epistemological Crossroads
Norton, Bonny
Bonny Norton is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, where she has received both the Killam Teaching Award and the Killam Research Prize for her exemplary contributions to the field of applied linguistics. In 2011, Norton became the inaugural recipient of the “Second Language Leadership Through Research” Award from the American Educ…
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