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MLRG Seminar Series
MLRG Seminar Series
Andrew Moody 14:00: Norms in World Englishes: Three Misconceptions in Applied Linguistics This presentation will briefly introduce the “three circles” model of world Englishes (WE) that has defined research in the field for nearly 40 years. Although Kachru (1986) argued that new English varieties (a.k.a. new Englishes, world Englishes, etc.) should be understood within their acquisitional, sociocultural, motivational and functional contexts, the full breadth of contexts have been frequently overlooked within many disciplines in applied linguistics. This paper will briefly introduce Kachru’s world Englishes model and illustrate three common misconceptions about the model in language teaching contexts: (1) the language proficiency fallacy, (2) the developmental cline fallacy, and (3) the variability fallacy. In response to these fallacies, the presentation will […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “‘Convinced about Knowing Little’: colonial knowledge production in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928).”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “‘Convinced about Knowing Little’: colonial knowledge production in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928).”
Abstract: Drawing on my recent two-volume study of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928), I will discuss the different axes, conflicting strands, and productive paradoxes of colonial knowledge in the Linguistic Survey of India . In particular, I will address the following questions: What do the terms ‘India’, ‘Survey’, and ‘knowledge’ mean in the Linguistic Survey of India? In what sense is the Survey ‘colonial’? What is the relationship between superintending and authoring in the Survey? What role do ignorance & doubt play in the Survey’s generation of knowledge in relation to the failure of the planned Linguistic Survey of Burma? Finally, how might we think about the LSI’s postcolonial legacy? Biography: Javed Majeed is Professor of English […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “To be Moved: Affect and Migration in Southeast Asian Literature”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “To be Moved: Affect and Migration in Southeast Asian Literature”
Abstract: Movement and mobility have always been entangled in how affect is conceptualized and understood. To be affected, after all, may also mean to be moved, as the condition of affectivity traverses senses of displacement, transformation, and passage. This is why stories about migration, of bodies crossing borders and cultures, are charged with emotions and feelings that are, in themselves, fraught with contradictions that intervene in public discourses. This talk looks at the development of affect studies at the intersections of class, race, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality while also exploring the emerging literary and cultural texts written by migrant underclass from Southeast Asia. Through the lens of affect, migrant writings illustrate the importance of the ordinary and the everyday in […]