Metacultural positioning in language socialization:Inhabiting authority in informal teaching among Peruvian Aymara siblings  

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Smith, Benjamin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION: An International Research Journal vol. 25 (2014), page 108-118.
Topik: Care giving; Socialization; Informal teaching ; MetacultureLanguageAndesa
Fulltext: LE_25_2014_Smith.pdf (675.99KB)

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In this article, I give an account of informal teaching among siblings as a care taking practice among Peruvian, Aymara speaking children. To do so, I draw upon a notion of “metaculture” (Urban, 2001) or a “theory of the cultural” to account for the sense in which informal teaching practices imply a form of authoritative, reflexive positioning toward the normativities qua normativities (“culture”) of everyday social life. Drawing on an analysis of interview data, I give an account of an Aymara “folk pedagogy” in which identities like old-est, older, and younger sibling are interpretable as forms of metacultural social positioning.An analysis of a series of video-recordings shows the way in which – that is, through acts of “correction” – older siblings deploy a theory of the cultural as they informally instruct their younger siblings.

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