Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2013
Department
English
Abstract
We argue that composition scholarship’s defenses of language differences in student writing reinforce dominant ideology’s spatial framework conceiving language difference as deviation from a norm of sameness. We argue instead for adopting a temporal-spatial framework defining difference as the norm of utterances, and defining languages, literacy practices, conventions, and contexts as always emergent, ongoing products of iterations, and thus manifestations of writer agency. Using the “White Shoes” essay from David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University,” we show how such a framework addresses the writer’s agency iterating the “same,” and how it resolves concerns to meet students’ need and right to learn both dominant and subordinate languages.
Original Publication Information
This article was originally published in College English, Volume 75, Number 6, July 2013.
ThinkIR Citation
Lu, Min-Zhan and Horner, Bruce, "Translingual literacy, language difference, and matters of agency." (2013). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 68.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/68
ORCID
0000-0002-8412-5454
