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This article examines variation in the use of two Taiwan Mandarin features, de-retroflection of sibilant fricatives [ʂ] → [s], and labial glide deletion [wɔ] → [ɔ], in the speech of Taipei County high school students. The features become resources for the negotiation of identity positions within the highly structured school institution. I discuss the correlations between the use of Taiwan Mandarin and two social factors: membership in the small culture (Holliday
1999) of a particular b
anjı or class, and individual aspirations. Holliday’s concept of small cultures is proposed as a variant of the Community of Practice. I refer to Bucholtz and Hall’s (2004) tactics of intersubjectivity framework as a possible tool for explaining variation at the school. I argue that the two Taiwan Mandarin features are invoked to perform different social goals, which is possible because they are imbued with related but significantly
different sociocultural meanings (Brubaker 2012; Baran 2007).

本研究探討台灣新北市高中高職生的發音使用,針對台灣華語中的兩個特 徵:(1)捲舌嘶音[ʂ]的齒音化[s],以及(2)[wɔ]韻尾唸做[ɔ],也就是雙唇滑音[w]被刪除的情形。學生常用這兩種範疇來劃定自己在高度結構化的學校社群中的身份地位。作者探討台灣華語的使用方式與以下兩種社交因素的關聯:(1)在某班級的「小文化」歸屬(Holliday 1999),以及(2)個人發展志向。作者提議:Holliday的小文化概念與「實務社群」(Community of Practice)概念相似,而Bucholtz and Hall (2004) 的互為主體性架構也可以做為分析學校差異性的工具。根據作者的論點,學生常運用上述兩種台灣
華語的發音特徵來達成不同的社交目的,因為這兩個特徵各有不同卻相關的社會文化意涵(Brubaker 2012; Baran 2007)。[Chinese]

Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and current political context, this book covers hotly debated topics such as language and ethnicity, the relationship between non-native English and American identity, perceptions and stereotypes related to foreign accents, code-switching, hybrid language forms such as Spanglish, language and the family, and the future of language in America. Work from linguistics, education policy, history, sociology, and politics is brought together to provide an accessible overview of the key issues. Through specific examples and case studies, immigrant America is presented as a diverse, multilingual, and multidimensional space in which identities are often hybridized and always multifaceted.

This article examines variation in the use of two Taiwan Mandarin features, de-retroflection of sibilant fricatives [ §] → [s], and labial glide deletion [wɔ] → [ɔ], in the speech of Taipei County high school students. The features become resources for the negotiation of identity positions within the highly structured school institution. I discuss the correlations between the use of Taiwan Mandarin and two social factors: membership in the small culture (Holliday 1999) of a particular b anj ı or class, and individual aspirations. Holliday's concept of small cultures is proposed as a variant of the Community of Practice. I refer to Bucholtz and Hall's (2004) tactics of intersubjectivity framework as a possible tool for explaining variation at the school. I argue that the two Taiwan Mandarin features are invoked to perform different social goals, which is possible because they are imbued with related but significantly different sociocultural meanings (Brubaker 2012; Baran 2007).

This article brings together research on migration and identity in translocal and superdiverse contexts, and the recently expanding interest in narratives and interaction in social media, by examining the construction of identities in narratives shared in a private Facebook group message. The participants are former fellow refugees from Poland who reconnected on Facebook after two decades. The article analyzes three narratives produced in response to the researcher's question about ethnic and national affiliations. Using Bucholtz & Hall's (2004) tactics of intersubjectivity framework, this study examines the complex and conflicting ways in which individuals position themselves with respect to various contexts of belonging and difference (Meinhof & Galasiński 2005) that emerge in their narratives. I argue that the narratives show a link between essentialist or nonessentialist views of ethnicity/nationality, and the teller's assumed agency over her identity. The study also...

Building on Borba’s theorisation of the anti-genderism register, the articles in this special issue explore anti-genderism as a political tool for the global right in four cases: online ‘tradwives’ or traditional wives defending national and sexual purity (Tebaldi), homonationalism in the Islamophobic forum r/thedonald (Brotherton), the natalist chronopolitics of Bolsonaro in Brazil (Silva and Dziuba) and the invocation of the spectre of gender to place Poland at the centre of the white West (Baran). Together, they highlight new discursive elements in the nationalist far-right use of the anti-genderism register and the construction of morally marked figures through nationalist discourses of tradition, sexuality, temporality and place. Anti-genderism is not just a call for ‘traditional’ gender or marriage, but the evocation of a gendered nation, an idealised past and a strong future populated with warriors and mothers.

"Re/Minding the Modern traces a small number key concepts of humanistic inquiry (will – person – judgment – action) from antiquity through the early nineteenth century. Its main contention is that under conditions of modernity, both of these conceptions become gradually incoherent and eventually unintelligible. As a result, our grasp of the nature and function of concepts is decisively altered, which in turn compromises our understanding of humanistic inquiry itself.

Part I explores the genesis of the concept of the Will in Aristotle's and the Stoics' theory of judgment and then moves on to its consolidation in St. Augustine's De Trinitate and in Aquinas' Summa. Subsequent chapters focus on the increasing tension between willing and cognition, and on the ascent of voluntarist and irrational models of human agency in Ockham, Hobbes, and Locke.  They are followed by chapters exploring the gradual dissolution of the concept of the Will and its displacement onto eighteenth-century models of the "passions." The focus here is on Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Hume, and A. Smith.

Part II explores the later Coleridge’s philosophical theology, especially his unique and ambitious retrieval of conceptions of Person and Will via neo-Platonic philosophy and Trinitarian theology. The objective here is to trace how humanistic concepts and the Basisphänomene (as Ernst Cassirer calls them) they seek to elucidate acquire meaning and significance only inasmuch as we are prepared positively to engage (rather than “historicize”) their previous usages.  Concepts like will and person are essentially interpretive, which is to say, not neutral tools but evaluative, heuristic frameworks that afford us orientation even as they are subject to continual re-interpretation. Readings in this second part take on Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, his later Notebooks, as well as the fragments associated with his Opus Maximum.  From these texts, the argument leaps back to the emergent conception of human personhood in the Cappadocian Fathers, St. Augustine, Boethius, Richard of St. Victor, as well as forward to post-Coleridgean, Judaic models of personhood as constituted in the I-Thou relationship (in M. Buber and E. Levinas).
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