Performativity theory and language learning: Sedimentating, appropriating, and constituting language and subjectivity

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-99

  Miller, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriation; Ideology; Performativity; Second language learning; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856224748     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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