This book is the first to explore the constitution of language
learner agency by drawing on performativity theory, an approach
that remains on the periphery of second language research. Though
many scholars have drawn on poststructuralism to theorize learner
identity in non-essentialist terms, most have treated agency as an
essential feature that belongs to or inheres in individuals. By
contrast, this work promotes a view of learner agency as inherently
social and as performatively constituted in discursive practice. In
developing a performativity approach to learner agency, it builds
on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on 'agency
of spaces' and language ideologies. Through the study of discourses
produced in interviews, this work explores how immigrant small
business owners co-construct their theories of agency, in relation
to language learning and use. The analysis focuses on three
discursive constructs produced in the interview
talk-subject-predicate constructs, evaluative stance, and reported
speech-and investigates their discursive effects in mobilizing
ideologically normative, performatively realized agentive selves.
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