Agentic Orientation as Magical Voluntarism

Gunn, Joshua; Cloud, Dana L.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.2009.01349.x

Cited by 34 publications

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“…Rather than serving as the seat or origin of agency, the human individual is then seen as operating in the nexus of ‘interactivity, dialogue and collectivity’ (Gunn and Cloud : 72). Such a view does not deny the reality of material constraints, the top‐down influence of powerful individuals and institutions, or the shaping effects of neoliberal economic practices.…”

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The ideology of learner agency and the neoliberal self

Miller

2015

Int J App Linguistics

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This paper compares how the neoliberal self and the agentive language learner self have been conceptualized in the scholarly literature. It shows that both selves are construed as self‐regulating and free to choose, but that they are treated very differently in terms of origin or essence. In discussing the apparent contradiction between the neoliberal self as an ideological effect and the agentive self as naturally agentive, the paper proposes a radically social, relational view of learner agency. It illustrates this perspective using narrative analysis to explore the life history account of an Indonesian immigrant to the US and also positions this individual account in its (neoliberal) historical context. It calls for second language scholars to conceptualize agency as always exercised at articulation points within a nexus of practice.

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Section: The Ideology Of Agencymentioning

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The ideology of learner agency and the neoliberal self

Miller

2015

Int J App Linguistics

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“…From a descriptive perspective, it encourages empirical studies of how, by whom, where, why, and under what circumstances contemporary rhetorical citizenship is enacted. Within rhetorical studies, such analyses are likely to relate to questions of rhetorical agency (Gunn & Cloud, 2010;Hoff-Clausen, 2013b), public modalities (Brouwer & Asen, 2010), the emergence of publics and counter-publics (Fraser, 1992;Hauser, 1999), and the forms and norms of deliberation, which are, in practice, often far removed from the ideals of rational argumentation advanced in political science (Kock & Villadsen, 2012a).…”

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The Rhetorical Citizenship of Corporations in the Digital Age

Hoff-Clausen¹,

Ihlen²

2015

Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility

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“…The central argument I want to advance is that current scholarly interest in articulating a conception of rhetorical democracy, within which the rhetorical citizen is presumed to act, excludes consideration of what it means, rhetori-1 Their essay is a trenchant critique of a 2007 essay by Sonja Foss, William Waters, and Bernard J. Armada. As Gunn and Cloud (2010) note, this is a more complex issue than an assumption that a person can choose agency and enact change as a result of that choice. Space does not allow a summary of their extensive review of recent rhetorical positions related to "What is agency?"…”

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