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: Department of French, 50 St. Joseph Street, 2nd floor. University of Toronto. Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 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: a critical sociolinguistic and ethnographic look at the discursive (re)constructions of
                                    identity among second-generation Portuguese-Canadian youth in Toronto.

Curriculum vitae (CV): a complete summary of my academic career thus far, including my publications, presentations and
(click for PDF file) participation in different research projects, etc. (from 21.11.11)

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. (Accepted for publication). "Heroes or zeros? Portuguese-Canadian youth and the cost of mobilizing different sociolinguistic resources." International Journal of Multilingualism.
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:

(November 2011) 'Tracing the legacy of linguistic and class ideologies in Toronto's Portuguese diasporic market'. Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Palais des congrès, Montréal, QC.
(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) 'Positioning Portuguese-Canadian youth as inheritors of and investors in contested ethnolinguistic markets: Azorean & (Mainland) Portuguese diasporas'. Paper presented at the 16th International Metropolis conference on "Migration futures: Perspectives on global changes." Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal.

(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.

(April 2009) 'Stuck in a Portuguese rut? Sociolinguistic constraints on identity reconstruction'. Paper presented at the 11e Colloque du CEETUM pour étudiants et jeunes diplômés, Université de Montréal.

last updated on: 21/11/11