ABSTRACT

This article argues for the significance of biographical theory in research on raciolinguistic ideologies in education. It accounts for biographies as a basis for the study of the ways in which students conceive the languages, social spaces and power relations which shape processes of inclusion and exclusion. Taking anti-Muslim discourses in Austria as a point of departure, this article introduces raciolinguistics as a way to theorize the co-naturalization of language and race in education. It then delineates the use of biographies to contextualize understandings of the significance of language across the life course. In the empirical part, I analyze the biographical narration of a university student who wears a headscarf. I focus on her experiences with the specific relationship between anti-Muslim racism and language in different stages of her life. The final part of the article discusses how biographical research can contribute to a broader understanding of raciolinguistic power relations in education.

摘要

本文认为传记理论在研究种族语言学思想方面的重要性。它把传记作为研究学生构想包容和排斥过程的语言，社会空间和权力关系方式的基础。本文以奥地利的反穆斯林话语为出发点，介绍了种族语言学，以此作为理论化语言和种族在教育中的共同化的一种方式。然后，它描述了传记的使用，以贯穿整个生命过程中对语言重要性的理解。在实证部分，我分析了一名戴头巾的大学生的传记叙述。我将重点介绍她在人生的不同阶段对反穆斯林种族主义和语言之间的特定关系的经历。本文的最后一部分讨论了传记研究如何有助于更广泛地理解教育中的语言能力关系。