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Identity, ideology, and language a literature review of theoretical anchors and empirical studies
Majd Sarah1.
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of selected theoretical frameworks and some
empirical studies that take up theories on identity, ideology, and language. The researcher attempts
to highlight the most important theoretical frameworks on identity, ideologies, and language, and
discusses key theoretical frameworks that have had an influence among recent scholars’ empirical
work especially in the fields of second language acquisition (SLA), sociolinguistics, and linguistic
anthropology. This article has two objectives. First, with a focus on the relationship between
language, identity, and investment, the researcher attempts to present a review of Norton’s
foundational work dated between 1995 (Peirce, 1995) to a more recent scholarly work (Darvin &
Norton, 2015). Next, she discusses identity and interaction from a sociocultural linguistic approach
by drawing on Bucholtz and Hall’s framework (2004a, 2004b, 2005). Findings from this article
highlight a paradigm shift in the ways the scholarly focus has changed from looking at language
solely as an oral and written skill to looking at language from the sociocultural lens and studying
how it is embedded in identity production through linguistics interaction. This article concludes
with a recommendation for future research on identity and language to respond to the diversity of
language practices and aim at connecting language ideologies and identity to enhance our
understanding of today’s complex learning communities and globalized world.
Affiliation:
- University of Texas at El Paso, United States
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