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題名 Introducing Language Ideologies, Finding the Domain of Semiotics: How Does Linguistic Anthropology Work in the Mandarin-dominated Language Landscape among Multilingual Taiwanese College Students? 作者 劉子愷
Liu, Tzu-kai貢獻者 民族系 日期 2025-05 上傳時間 24-Nov-2025 09:04:12 (UTC+8) 摘要 Most theoretical concepts in linguistic anthropology originate from non-Asian linguistic and sociocultural contexts. In Taiwan, even though English is the language of instruction, translating these concepts in university classrooms, where Mandarin Chinese is the dominant language, has become a challenging task. Drawing on my teaching experiences of the seminar course of linguistic anthropology, I will explain the instructional design to introduce the theories of language ideology and semiotics by taking the insights from the application of translanguaging into educational efforts to use Taiwanese students’ personal and familial histories of multilingual learning as a way to explain the semiotic formation of linguistic differentiation and hierarchical scaling. The challenge I faced is that at present a high proportion of Taiwanese college students cannot use their native or first languages (e.g., Taiwanese, Hakka, aboriginal languages and others). They even need to use Chinese to communicate with their family’s elderly who are often not fluent in speaking Chinese. Only a few students have a strong critical awareness of their inability to speak their native or first languages fluently, and try to put their lost mother tongue skills into action and regain them through language learning. The personal and familial histories of multilingual learning, for me as an instructor, provide not only the dialogic voices to develop a linkage with the theories of linguistic anthropology but also a translanguaging lens to, critically and reflexively, review the positions of multilingual Taiwanese students. 關聯 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Meeting, Soceity for Linguistic Anthropology 資料類型 conference dc.contributor 民族系 dc.creator (作者) 劉子愷 dc.creator (作者) Liu, Tzu-kai dc.date (日期) 2025-05 dc.date.accessioned 24-Nov-2025 09:04:12 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 24-Nov-2025 09:04:12 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 24-Nov-2025 09:04:12 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://ah.lib.nccu.edu.tw/item?item_id=179903 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) Most theoretical concepts in linguistic anthropology originate from non-Asian linguistic and sociocultural contexts. In Taiwan, even though English is the language of instruction, translating these concepts in university classrooms, where Mandarin Chinese is the dominant language, has become a challenging task. Drawing on my teaching experiences of the seminar course of linguistic anthropology, I will explain the instructional design to introduce the theories of language ideology and semiotics by taking the insights from the application of translanguaging into educational efforts to use Taiwanese students’ personal and familial histories of multilingual learning as a way to explain the semiotic formation of linguistic differentiation and hierarchical scaling. The challenge I faced is that at present a high proportion of Taiwanese college students cannot use their native or first languages (e.g., Taiwanese, Hakka, aboriginal languages and others). They even need to use Chinese to communicate with their family’s elderly who are often not fluent in speaking Chinese. Only a few students have a strong critical awareness of their inability to speak their native or first languages fluently, and try to put their lost mother tongue skills into action and regain them through language learning. The personal and familial histories of multilingual learning, for me as an instructor, provide not only the dialogic voices to develop a linkage with the theories of linguistic anthropology but also a translanguaging lens to, critically and reflexively, review the positions of multilingual Taiwanese students. dc.format.extent 105 bytes - dc.format.mimetype text/html - dc.relation (關聯) 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Meeting, Soceity for Linguistic Anthropology dc.title (題名) Introducing Language Ideologies, Finding the Domain of Semiotics: How Does Linguistic Anthropology Work in the Mandarin-dominated Language Landscape among Multilingual Taiwanese College Students? dc.type (資料類型) conference
