عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
161T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
English, Israel, and globalization: A sociohistoric study on language and cultural shift
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor Prior, Paul
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: United States -- Illinois
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
270 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: United States -- Illinois
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
During the past twenty years, Israeli society has been undergoing language and cultural shift, as it moves from the socialist and Zionist ideals of the kibbutz to a capitalist system based on global hi-tech industries. Accompanying this move has been a transformation in Israeli identity from a focus on the collective to the individual, and from Hebrew as the dominant language to a situation in which English is commonplace in many domains. In order to study these language and culture shifts in everyday literate activities, this dissertation examines multilingual (primarily Hebrew and English) and multimodal literacy practices across a range of contexts: popular culture (a men's magazine), an English language learning classroom, and a hi-tech company. In making these moves, this dissertation argues for a sociohistoric framework to link situated multilingual reading, writing, speaking, and design practices to wider institutional, cultural, national, and global contexts. Moving away from bounded notions of language, this dissertation argues for close attention to what Engestrنm calls knotworking, the tying and untying of tools, texts, objects, and people, for tracing the ways global ecologies of language and culture are constituted in everyday mundane and routine literacy activities. This research also responds to calls in Writing Studies for understanding English writing in relation to other languages and the context of globalization. In answering that call, this dissertation offers fine grained descriptions of multilingual-multimodal literacy practices, which it argues are key to challenging the monolingual assumptions on which much composition scholarship and teaching has been based.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English as a Second Language
Technical Communication
Rhetoric
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Sociocultural
Subject Term
Technical communication
Subject Term
Israel
Subject Term
English as a second language
Subject Term
Multilingualism
Subject Term
Globalization
Subject Term
Cultural shift
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Fraiberg, Steven
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
Agency
National Center for Globalization Studies
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