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    The Language of Higher Education Assessment: Legislative Concerns in a Global Context

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    Globalization and Education Symposiu

    Citando Mario Juruna: imaginårio linguístico e a transformação da voz indígena na imprensa brasileira

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    The Language of Higher Education Assessment: Legislative Concerns in a Global Context

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    The Metaculture of Law School Admissions: A Commentary on Lazarus-Black and Globokar

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    What does it mean for law school applicants to become, as Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar put it, what the ranking[s] count[] ? What does it mean for foreign applicants to develop responses to the application process by writing essays in certain ways, to project themselves (again as Lazarus-Black and Globokar put it) as commodified persona[s] ? The application process analyzed by Lazarus-Black and Globokar exemplifies what Greg Urban calls metaculture: cultural forms that point actors toward recognizing and understanding what they do as exemplifying a particular cultural pattern. Metaculture is the mechanism by which culture is reproduced, moving through time and space. The admissions process is metacultural because it defines who one should be as a law student while spreading that definition (quite literally) throughout the world. Lazarus-Black and Globokar lay out the entextualization of law school admissions essays by illuminating the details of that process, which, as Mertz shows us, is just the beginning of an extended project concerning engagement with institutional metadiscourse and consequent socialization of law students

    La « diversité » comme capital : La re-conceptualisation néolibérale de la différence linguistique et sociale

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    Dans les discours nĂ©olibĂ©raux sur le travail, les travailleurs sont imaginĂ©s comme des faisceaux de compĂ©tences, certaines Ă©tant dites « formelles » (le savoir et les techniques), d’autres « informelles » (les aptitudes et les caractĂ©ristiques sociales). Dans cette conception, tout attribut pensĂ© en termes de travail productif, mĂȘme les diffĂ©rentes formes de se comporter socialement, peut ĂȘtre considĂ©rĂ© comme une compĂ©tence. En particulier, les marqueurs de diffĂ©rences sociales peuvent ĂȘtre considĂ©rĂ©s comme des compĂ©tences, y compris les marqueurs raciaux, ethniques et linguistiques, pour autant qu’on puisse supposer qu’ils apportent une valeur Ă  l’entreprise. Des diffĂ©rences que l’on pourrait par ailleurs interprĂ©ter comme des indications de race, d’ethnicitĂ© ou d’identitĂ© nationale sont rĂ©-imaginĂ©es comme des propriĂ©tĂ©s appartenant Ă  des individus. De plus, les salariĂ©s sont rendus responsables de la conversion de leurs propres marqueurs de dĂ©savantage social en marqueurs de valeur ajoutĂ©e. De maniĂšre gĂ©nĂ©rale, les diffĂ©rences langagiĂšres et raciales/ethniques fonctionnent de maniĂšre complĂ©mentaire dans le monde du travail issu de la globalisation : les diffĂ©rences linguistiques opĂšrent comme des compĂ©tences « formelles » et les caractĂ©ristiques sociales identitaires de la « diversité » comme des compĂ©tences « informelles ».In neoliberalized labor discourses, workers are imagined as bundles of skills, some « hard » (knowledge and techniques) and some « soft » (social abilities and characteristics). In such imagining, any attribute that can be imagined in terms of productive labor can be cast as a skill, including forms of social being. In particular, forms of social difference can be imagined as skills, including racial/ethnic markedness and language markedness, so long as they can be cast as providing corporate value. Forms of difference that would otherwise be interpretable as indices of race, ethnic or national identity are reimagined as properties belonging to individuals. Moreover, workers are in effect responsible for recasting their own markers of social disadvantage as markers of added value. By and large, language and race/ethnic differences operate in complement to each other in globalized labor regimes : language difference operating as « hard » skills and social identity forms of « diversity » operating as « soft » skills.En los discursos neoliberales sobre el trabajo, los trabajadores han sido imaginados como haces de competencia, algunas « tangibles » (el conocimiento y las tĂ©cnicas), otras « intangibles » (las aptitudes y las caracterĂ­sticas sociales). Para ese tipo de concepciĂłn, todo atributo que se pueda concebir en tĂ©rminos de trabajo productivo puede ser calificado de competencia, incluyendo las formas del ser social. De manera particular, las formas de diferencia social pueden ser imaginadas como competencias, incluyendo los marcadores raciales, Ă©tnicos y lingĂŒĂ­sticos, en la medida en que se supone que agregan un valor a la empresa. Las formas de diferencia que se podrĂ­an interpretar como marcadores de la raza, la identidad o la identidad nacional se re-imaginan como una propiedad de los individuos. AdemĂĄs, los asalariados estĂĄn encargados de transformar sus propios marcadores de la desventaja social en indicadores con valor agregado. En forma general, las diferencias lingĂŒĂ­sticas y raciales/Ă©tnicas funcionan de manera complementaria en los regĂ­menes globalizados del trabajo : las diferencias lingĂŒĂ­sticas operan como competencias « tangibles » y las formas de identidad social de la « diversidad » como competencias « intangibles »

    Neoliberalizing markedness: The interpellation of “diverse” college students

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    For students at elite US liberal arts colleges, symbolic capital accrues to their association with the institution itself, and for racially unmarked (white) students, symbolic capital can also accrue to other, informal associations with such institutions, such as friend and family ties or social fraternities. For racially marked students at elite schools, sources of symbolic capital are more limited to institutional venues such as the classroom and official school organizations. They are under pressure to act as good campus citizens, to “bring diversity” as “campus leaders,” enacting a combination of institutional pride and neoliberal values as key aspects of their “diversity.” This is particularly the case for students whose educations are provided through the Posse Foundation, which recruits and promotes “diverse” students explicitly as “leaders” and “change agents.” Such students are subject to neoliberal interpellation (hailed to enact a specific subjectivity) in ways that unmarked students are not because their options for an acceptable racial subjectivity is limited to a narrow range of social performance. In this way, neoliberal subjectivity can exacerbate racial markedness

    Deborah Cameron

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    Meaning what?

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