Gender identity is a sociocultural construct based (in nearly every society) on a binary norm: female and male. Transsexual individuals suffer from intense family and social discrimination because they express a dissident sexuality incongruent with this norm. They assert they feel trapped in a body that does not belong to them, so they seek help from health professionals to modify their bodies,...

In this paper, I propose that we need to develop an appropriate set of conceptual tools for examining motivational issues pertaining to linguistic diversity, mobility and social integration in a rapidly changing and expanding Europe. I begin by drawing on research that has begun to reframe the concept of integrative motivation in the context of theories of self and identity. Expanding the notio...

This article shows how a narrative methodological approach is particularly suited to examining the dynamics of intimate partner violence, especially among poor women of color in South Africa. We show how a narrative approach allowed women to represent their experiences of violence according to their own frames of meaning, examining the complexities of abuse as it is informed by sociocultural fa...

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...

Although theory and research on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioners have grown recently, there is little documented their emotions identities. This study explored the emotion of 12 Iranian EAP role in identity construction. Adopting a narrative inquiry methodology, examined practitioners’ across Zembylas’s (2002) three-dimensional framework teacher Data analyses revealed that whil...

As one of the most ancient and attractive tourism destinations in Middle East South Asia, Iran seeks to maximize its competitive identity compete more effectively at international level. This study examines major factors influencing Iran’s as a destination from supply-side perspective. The paper is divided into two phases using qualitative quantitative techniques. First, we determined competiti...

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

This paper focuses on sociocultural and language-related issues among Croatian immigrants in Canada. It presents the results of thestudy conducted from November 2018 to February 2019 different generations Ontario British Columbia. Questions included questionnaire refer aspects participants’ identity their (families’) immigration, as well related attitudes towards homeland engagement association...