Teaching in Two Languages

Teaching in Two Languages is an ethnographic study of linguistic and social practices in a bilingual Corsican school.



Drawing on traditions of research in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistic studies of classroom discourse and power, the emphasis of this book is on the way the interactional order of the classroom engages with the wider social, political and sociolinguistic context.　　 Alexandra Jaffe does not take 'bilingualism' to be a self-evident category or goal, but rather, looks at the way that school practices embody and promote particular images of what it means to be a bilingual person or society.



Teaching in Two Languages is also centrally concerned with processes of social and linguistic change, and how the introduction of a minority language like Corsican into the school constitutes and potentially reconfigures social and linguistic identities and relationships.　　



Both an landmark ethnography and a major contribution to theory, this book is essential reading for all those wanting to keep up to date with advances in bilingualism, multilingualism and sociolinguistics.

Predarea in doua limbi este un studiu etnografic al practicilor lingvistice si sociale intr-o scoala bilingva corsica. Bazandu-se pe traditiile cercetarii in antropologie lingvistica si pe studiile sociolingvistice ale discursului si puterii de clasa, accentul acestei carti este pe modul in care ordinea interactionala clasa se angajeaza in contextul social, politic si sociolingvistic mai larg. Alexandra Jaffe nu considera ca „bilingvismul” este o categorie sau un obiectiv evident, ci mai degraba priveste modul in care practicile scolare intruchipeaza si promoveaza imagini particulare despre ceea ce inseamna a fi o persoana sau o societate bilingva. de asemenea, preocupat in mod central de procesele de schimbare sociala si lingvistica si de modul in care introducerea unei limbi minoritare precum corsica in scoala constituie si potential reconfigureaza identitatile si relatiile sociale si lingvistice. Atat o etnografie de referinta, cat si o contributie majora la teorie, aceasta carte este o lectura esentiala pentru toti cei care doresc sa fie la curent cu progresele in bilingvism, multilingvism si sociolingvistica.