LINGUIST List 21.4438 Sat Nov 06 2010 Diss: Applied Ling: Semechechem: 'Literacy and Identities in a ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Jakeline Semechechem , Literacy and Identities in a Multilingual Town in Southeast of Paraná State (Brazil) Message 1: Literacy and Identities in a Multilingual Town in Southeast of Paraná State (Brazil) Date: 25-Oct-2010 From: Jakeline Semechechem <jasemechechemyahoo.com.br> Subject: Literacy and Identities in a Multilingual Town in Southeast of Paraná State (Brazil) E-mail this message to a friend Institution: University of Maringá-Brazil Program: Masters in Linguistic Studies Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2010 Author: Jakeline Semechechem Dissertation Title: Literacy and Identities in a Multilingual Town in Southeast of Paraná State (Brazil) Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Dissertation Director: Neiva Maria Jung Dissertation Abstract: This paper reports a qualitative-interpretive ethnographic research method which investigated what kind of identities would be relevant and negotiable in talk-interaction during literacy events, at Prudente de Moraes School, inside a multilingual contextualized town, in Southeast of Paraná State, Brazil. To support this work, on 3th level of Secondary Education Class, 18 hours of lectures were recorded on audio and video and later transcribed. Questionnaires and interviews were filled by those students and teachers. In order to improve the comprehension besides situated talk-in-interaction, researcher's field work notes were incorporated into this work. Participant observation, as well interviews and questionnaires were similarly applied to the community. These methods were all based on Data Collection methods of Ethnographic Methodology skills. Theoretical background that based the data analysis was: New Literacy Studies (NLS), with its Socio-Cultural Approach, Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis with their Methodological-Analytic Procedures (ECA) and Interactional Sociolinguistics (IS) as well Ethnomethodological Concepts of Identity and also Membership Categorization Analysis, (MCA). About results, talk-interaction data analysis showed on sequentiality talk-interaction, beyond the membership categorizations as teacher, as student and other kinds of social identities, revealed other identities roles such as ethnic identity, ruralist identity and religious identity. Some of those identity roles were assumed such as the Germanic identity, Ukrainian identity and Catholic identity. On the other side, some identity roles such as the evangelical religious identity and the ruralist identity were rejected. The ruralist identity had been denied by some members, but it was assumed by these members, just when the teacher class, assumed herself as a member of this ruralist identity. About Literacy issues data indicated clearly that these social identities interfere with those members who negotiate them and with the literacy events configuration too. About community, school database showed perceptible identity process stuff and conflicts which have been existing in this town and indicates the presence of a 'minoritarizated' multilingual context where relationships are not homogeneous but also there are identities which are more legitimated than the others, depending on local values and the negotiation among different ethnic, social and religious groups. In addition, the community has been in transition at the moment. Population rearrangement approaches, new religions and orientation for an urban way of living inside a predominant rural community corroborate the identity conflicts in this town. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.