Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools
In: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables and transcripts -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Chapter 1 Entering the World of Secondary Education in Italy -- Introduction -- Getting to Know Cittadina and Finding My Place in It -- Gatekeeping at the Three School Field Sites -- The Development of the Modern-Day Italian Secondary School System (1859-present) -- The Contemporary Tripartite Italian Education System -- Modern Challenges for Equitable Education in Italy -- Research Questions -- Overview of Chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 2 What Does an Analysis of Language Tell Us about School and Society? -- Why This Book? -- Language Ideologies and la questione della lingua -- What Does Language Use Have to Do with the Social Project of Education? -- Constructing the Self and Others in Academic Spaces -- Performing Academic Knowledge -- Collecting Data for a Linguistic Ethnography of Education -- Analyzing the Data for a Linguistic Ethnography of Education -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Social Personae and School Choice in Cittadina1 -- Introduction -- Representations of School Types Circulating via Social Media -- Student Narratives of School Choice -- Discussion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Public Performances of Schooled Knowledge in Cittadina -- Introduction -- Data Presentation and Analysis -- Discussion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Peer-to-Peer Performances of Expertise1 -- Introduction -- Ventriloquating "School Voice" in Language Play -- "Outside Voice" for School Topics -- Using "Non-standard" Language Features to Talk about Schoolwork -- Peer Commentary on the Surprise Performance of "Good Student" Persona -- Refusing to Accept Expert Positioning -- Discussion: Underlife, Communicative Repertoire, and Double-Voicing in Peer-to-Peer Performances of Expertise -- Notes.