上海外国语大学语言研究院、中国外语战略研究中心成立十周年庆祝活动
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主题：Reflexivity, emotions and transnational habitus: The case of a ‘poor’ cosmopolitan Chinese international student.
主讲人：Peter I. De Costa（Michigan State University）
主持人：郭晓彦（博士）
时间：2017年6月1日 上午9:00-10:30
地点：上海外国语大学虹口校区1号楼304室
内容提要：
Following Sayer’s (2010) examination of reflexivity and habitus, I focus on the transnational habitus (Darvin & Norton 2015) of Aaron, a Chinese international student at a U.S. university. Specifically, we examine how he wrestled with being identified as an ESL learner despite having attended a U.S. high school. Also exploring the relationship between reflexivity and emotions (Flam 2010), I draw on his written work, interviews, and his WeChat conversations. My findings revealed that as a result of positioning himself as being better than the other Chinese students on campus (because of his English proficiency) and distancing himself from domestic U.S. students, Aaron did not capitalize on his Chinese-English bilingualism to extend his local social networks, which exacerbated his growing isolation at his home university. In tracing his emotional trajectory and strategies to cope with his predicament, I problematize the grand narrative of the global elite (Vandrick 2011) that overlooks the challenges encountered by affluent international students.
讲座人简介：
Peter I. De Costa is an assistant professorin the Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning: Designer Immigrants Learning English in Singapore (Springer, 2016). He also recently edited Ethics in Applied Linguistics: Language Researcher Narratives (Routledge, 2016), and guest edited (with Suresh Canagarajah) a special issue of Linguistics and Education that focused on scalar approaches to language learning and teaching.
