Emanuel Angelo da Silva's website

                     PhD, Sociolinguistic ethnography
                            University of Toronto

                                         email 1: emanuel.dasilva [at] gmail.com
                                                 email 2: emanuel.dasilva [at] utoronto.ca

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snail mail: CREFO, OISE-University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. W., Room 6-110, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada

Research interests: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, diaspora & cultural studies
                                        More specifically, my research focus is on language and identity; on the role of language ideologies and practices in
                                        the construction of social difference and social inequality; on language, nationalism and postnationalism.

Current research/work:
                                   • Senior Research Officer at the Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne (CREFO), OISE-UofT
                                        (2012 - present) working with Prof. Diane Farmer on research exploring francophone immigration outside of Québec.
                                    • Continuing critical sociolinguistic and ethnographic research on the discursive (re)constructions of
                                         identity among second-generation Portuguese-Canadian youth in Toronto.
                                    • Co-director and Researcher, Portuguese Canadian History Project
                                  • Sessional Lecturer positions:
                                        (2013) HSJ2999H Special Topics in Sociological Research in Education: Langue, diversité et les marchés francophones (OISE-UofT)
                                        (2012) PRT 110Y Elementary Portuguese (University of Toronto)

Curriculum vitae (CV): a complete summary of my academic career thus far, including publications, presentations and
(click for PDF file) participation in different research projects, etc. (updated on 18.02.14)

PhD dissertation:
da Silva, E. (2011). Sociolinguistic (re)constructions of diaspora portugueseness: Portuguese-Canadian youth in Toronto. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Toronto, Canada. [3MB PDF file]

Recent publications:

da Silva, E. (2013). “Tensões sociolinguísticas na comunidade portuguesa/lusófona de Toronto, Canadá,” IN L. P. Lopes (ed.), O Português no século XXI: Cenário geopolítico e sociolinguístico. São Paulo: Parábola Editorial, pp.169-191.
da Silva, E. (2012b). "Making and masking difference: Multiculturalism and sociolinguistic tensions in Toronto's Portuguese-Canadian market." Portuguese Studies Review, 20(2):59-78. [this article is available for public circulation]
da Silva, E. (2012). "Heroes or zeros? Portuguese-Canadian youth and the cost of mobilizing different sociolinguistic resources." International Journal of Multilingualism. 9(2):138-150.
da Silva, E. (2012). Compte-rendu de la VIe journée de réflexion Metropolis sur l'immigration francophone au Canada. Ottawa: Secrétariat du Projet Metropolis / Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada, en partenariat avec Patrimoine canadien. (Part of the 14th National Metropolis conference)
Farmer, D. & E. da Silva (2012). Vitalité des milieux, Vitalité des parcours. Réflexions sur l'évolution de la recherche sur l'immigration francophone en milieu minoritaire. Ottawa: Secrétariat du Projet Metropolis / Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada. (Part of the 14th National Metropolis conference)
da Silva, E. & M. Heller (2009). “From protector to producer: the role of the State in the discursive shift from minority rights to economic development”. Language Policy. 8(2): 95-116.

da Silva, E., M. McLaughlin & M. Richards (2007). “Bilingualism and the globalized new economy : the commodification of language and identity”, in M. Heller (ed.) Bilingualism: A Social Approach. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-206.

Selection of recent presentations:

(June 2014) 'Mobilizing linguistic marginality: Humour, youth and azoreanness in Toronto’s Portuguese market.' Paper to be presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, an international conference on “Language, time, and space.” University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
(November 2013) 'Linguistic and postnational mobilization of future publics who have been sociolinguistically marginalized: Azoreans in Toronto.' Paper presented at the 112th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association as part of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology in a panel on “Linguistic friction: movement, contact and change.” Chicago, IL.

(November 2012) "You tink is funny?" Portuguese-Canadian comedy (re)positioning dominant ethnolinguistic ideologies'. Paper presented at the 111th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association as part of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology in a panel on “Heteroglossia, performance, power and participation.” San Francisco, CA.

(May 2012) 'Transnational sociolinguistic tensions: Second-generation Portuguese-Canadians in Toronto'. Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association conference, on the panel "Globalization and Transnational Migration". Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.
(October 2011) 'Making and masking difference: Multiculturalism and sociolinguistic tensions in Toronto's Portuguese-Canadian market'. 2nd Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on "Multiculturalism turns 40: Reflections on the Canadian policy". Ottawa, ON.
(September 2011) 'Inclusion and exclusion within multicultural toronto: Portuguese-Canadian youth negotiating monolithic ideologies of language and identity'. Paper presented at the 16th International Metropolis conference.

(September 2011) Organizer and Chair of international panel on 'Negotiating multiculturalism, multilingualism and multiple identities in Toronto and Ponta Delgada'. 16th International Metropolis conference.

(September 2011) Co-organizer of international panel on 'Second-generation Portuguese and diaspora: Transnational lives (Part I) & Identity in question (Part II)'. 16th International Metropolis conference.
(September 2010) 'From heroes to zeros: Portuguese-Canadian youth trying to mobilize the “right” sociolinguistic resources in a transnational space'. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistic Symposium 18, an international conference on “Negotiating transnational space and multilingual encounters”. University of Southampton, UK.

(March 2010) « Eh corisco ! » Le rôle des idéologies sociolinguistiques dans les (re)constructions identitaires chez des jeunes portugais-canadiens à Toronto'. Paper presented at the 12th National Metropolis conference on “Immigration and Diversity” in Montréal, QC.

(August 2009) 'Les contraintes sociales dans la production des identités : Regards sociolinguistiques et sociologiques'. Paper presented and written with Hambye, P. & J-L. Siroux (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) at the international conference «Dimensions du dialogisme 2. Construction identitaire dans la communication interpersonnelle ». Helsinki, Finland.

last updated on: 18/02/14