Discursive Enactment of Agency in Study-Abroad Interviews,The Modern Language Journal

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Discursive Enactment of Agency in Study-Abroad Interviews
The Modern Language Journal ( IF 4.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 , DOI: 10.1111/modl.12733
JULIETA FERNÁNDEZ ₁ , JANICE McGREGOR ₂ , AZIZ YULDASHEV ₃

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In this article, we examine how meta-agentive discourse was enacted and linguistically encoded with constructed dialog. We analyze interviews with 4 American undergraduate students who expressed their interest in study abroad (SA) and submitted applications but later withdrew them. The analysis centers on the ways agency was assigned to different actors in participants’ decision-making processes as mediated by discourses of SA. We demonstrate that in their interviews, the participants primarily assigned agency to (a) themselves by way of self-reports, (b) a ‘collective’ author by way of vague referents, and (c) SA programs and leadership by way of hypothetical constructed dialog. Notably, discourses about SA were often repurposed in divergent ways within the same interview by multiple participants. We urge scholars examining agency to closely consider the trajectorial and situated nature of meta-agentive discourse in applied linguistics research.

中文翻译：

出国留学访谈中代理的话语制定

在本文中，我们研究了元代理话语是如何通过构建对话进行制定和语言编码的。我们分析了对 4 名美国本科生的采访，他们表达了对出国留学 (SA) 的兴趣并提交了申请，但后来又撤回了申请。分析的中心是在参与者的决策过程中，代理被分配给不同行为者的方式，这些行为由 SA 的话语进行调解。我们证明，在他们的访谈中，参与者主要将代理分配给（a）通过自我报告的方式，（b）通过模糊的参照物来分配“集体”作者，以及（c）通过假设的方式分配 SA 计划和领导力构建的对话框。值得注意的是，在同一采访中，多名参与者经常以不同的方式重新利用关于 SA 的话语。

更新日期：2021-10-29

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