Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Représentations de la communauté anglophone et positionnements identitaires de jeunes scolarisés en anglais à Québec written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this MA thesis is to study English-speaking community representations and identity positioning of ten young people attending a Québec City anglophone high school. These rights holders are students in whom anglophone and francophone environments are associated in a particular social context. They represent the next generation of the English-speaking community, influencing the latter in both its vitality and viability. The specific aim of the research is to determine what are the representations of the English-speaking community of Québec City in the minds of the aforementioned students. What is their identity positioning in relation to that community? The proposed hypothesis is that the identity positioning depends on the representations they hold of the anglophone and francophone linguistic communities concerned. The first chapter of the study is of a fourfold nature: a brief presentation of the historical context of the English-speaking population of the province of Québec; an overview of the current context said population; a review of the relevant literature concerning conceptions of the anglophone community and the linguistic identity of English-language-educated youth; the issue and research objectives of the study. The second chapter examines four concepts (social representations, community, socialization, identity) addressed by the theoretical framework. The methodology utilized consists of three techniques in qualitative research applied in a complementary way: drawings, life histories, annotated photography. Another chapter presents the results for each participant, emphasizing how each defines who he / she is, what each construes to be representations of the linguistic communities concerned, and each's identity positioning. This study ends with a discussion-conclusion format that englobes the objectives of the research, the results, the theory, and the methodology used. The principal results of the study are that representations of th.