The Games People Play’: Taking on Postgraduate Identities in the Context of Writer Circles
Issue: Vol 4 No. 1 (2007) JAL Vol 4, No 1 (2007)
Journal: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Subject Areas: Writing and Composition Linguistics
Abstract:
Here Clement Chihota reflects on the nature of the space provided by Writer Circles in a project designed to support postgraduate students in their writing of research. Innovative, multidisciplinary and elusive, Writer Circles raise many questions about the nature of postgraduate student literacy, identity and what the UCT Writing Centre has begun to describe as ‘the postgraduate condition’.
Author: Mapfumo Clement Chihota
References :
Bakhtin, M. M. (1968) Rabeilas and His World. Cambridge and Massachussetts: MIT
Press.
Bakhtin, M. M. (1987) Discourse in the novel. In M. Holquist (ed.) The Dialogic
Imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Blommaert, J. (2005) Discourse: a critical introduction. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1990) The Logic of Practice. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Canagarajah, S. (2004) Subversive identities, safe pedagogical houses and critical learning.
In B. Norton and K. Toohey (eds) Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning 116–137.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fairclough, N. (1989) Language and Power. London: Longman.
Katz, S. (1996) How to speak and write postmodern. In W. A. Anderson (ed.) The Fontana
Postmodernist Reader. London: Fontana.
Sudarkassa, N. (1988) Can we afford equity and excellence? Can we afford less? Academe
74(5): 23–26.