{"id":636,"date":"2009-03-16T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T16:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/jaffer-sheyholislami-1960\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:59:14","slug":"jaffer-sheyholislami-1960","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?page_id=636","title":{"rendered":"Jaffer Sheyholislami (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jaffer Sheyholislami (Kurdish: Jefer Sh\u00e9xol\u00edslam\u00ed, \u062c\u0639\u0641\u0631 \u0634\u06ce\u062e \u0627\u0644\u06cc\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u06cc<\/span><\/span>) was born in 1960 in the city of\u00a0 Mahabad in Mukriyan Province. Currently\u00a0(2009)\u00a0he \u00a0is Assistant Professor at the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He teaches courses in the areas of applied linguistics and discourse analysis on a variety of topics such as language and power\/ideology, sociology of language, research and practice in academic writing, and language and media.<\/p>\n

He earned his PhD in Communication at Carleton in 2008. His dissertation (Identity, Discourse and the Media: The Case of the Kurds) investigated the ways Kurds have used the Internet and satellite television to construct and reproduce a collective national identity. His main research interests lie with a critical understanding of language and other semiosis in social life. Currently, with Co-editors Dr. Amir Hassanpour and Dr. Tove Skutnabb-kangas, he is preparing an edited volume on Kurdish language with a focus on the social, political and legal aspects of the language and how these are intertwined with education and identity in Kurdistan. His other areas of research have included: critical discourse analysis of the representation of Kurds in the US and Canada (book chapter published), Iranian ethnic media and citizenship in Canada, the semiotic construction of Canadian national identity, the dialogic nature of blogging in educational settings, and the place of blogging in the construction of Kurdish imagined communities.<\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Articles in refereed journals<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011. A bilingual corpus-assisted discourse study of the construction of nationhood and belonging in Quebec. Discourse & Society, 22, 1-27. With Rachelle Freak and Guillaume Gentil.<\/p>\n

2010. Identity, language, and new media: The Kurdish case. Language Policy, 9(4), 289-312.<\/p>\n

Chapters in edited books (peer-reviewed)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forthcoming. Linguistic Minorities on the Internet. In Kirk St.Amant & Kelsey Sigrid (Eds.), Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments. IGI Global publication.<\/p>\n

Chapters in edited books<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007. Yesterday\u2019s \u201cSeparatists\u201d are Today\u2019s \u201cResistance Fighters\u201d: Mainstream Media as Agents of Hegemony. In J. Bernardo, G. L\u00f3pez & P. Sancho (Eds.), An\u00e1lisis cr\u00edtico del discurso de los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n de masas [Critical discourse analysis of the mass media of communication]. Valencia: Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia.<\/p>\n

Conference proceedings<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010. Facilitating Dialogic Learning: Class Blogs on WebCT. Proceedings of EDULEARN10 (International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies), 5th-7th July 2010, Barcelona, Spain. CD version. 2010. ISBN:978-84-613-9386-2.<\/p>\n

Book review in scholarly journals<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009. Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies. [Review of the book with the same title, edited by Mike Cormack and Niamh Hourigan (2007). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.]. Canadian Journal of Communication, 34(4), 757-759.<\/p>\n

Papers Presented to learned societies and\/or international conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n

2010 May 29-31. \u201cRe-Semiotized Media Discourse: The Case of \u2018I\u2019m Canadian\u2019\u201d. The Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing. Congress 2010. Montreal, QC.<\/p>\n

2010 March 26-27. \u201cLanguage Selection in Kurdistan \u2026\u201d Invited talk presented at the Trace Foundation\u2019s Lecture Series, New York, NY.<\/p>\n

2009 November 20-23. \u201cLanguage and Nation-building in Kurdistan-Iraq.\u201d Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference. Boston, MA, USA.<\/p>\n

2009 September 3-6. \u201cKurdish and New Media: Legitimating and Maintaining a Minority Language Digitally.\u201d International Conference. Language in the (New) Media: Technologies and Ideologies. Seattle, WA, USA. http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/LIM<\/p>\n

2009 May 24-26. \u201cBlogging and the Construction of a Learning Community in Class.\u201d Paper presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing conference. Congress 2009. Ottawa, On. Canada. http:\/\/cattw-acprts.mcgill.ca\/en\/past_conference.htm<\/p>\n

2009 May 27-29. (with Dr. Devon Woods). \u201cAccounting for the Social Construction of Motivation in the Language Classroom: The Role of Teacher Conceptions.\u201d Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics conference. Congress 2009. Ottawa, On. Canada. http:\/\/www.aclacaal.org<\/p>\n

2009 April 2-3. \u201cKurdish Identities, Discursive Constructions, and the New Media\u201d. Paper presented at the international conference The Kurds and Kurdistan: History, Politics & Culture\u2019, Centre for Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.<\/p>\n

2008 July 10-12. \u201cDiscursive Construction of National Identities as Mediated by Digital Media: The Case of the Kurds.\u201d Paper presented at the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) 2008. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.<\/p>\n

2008 June 4-6. \u201c\u2019I write to untangle my yarn of thoughts\u2019: Blogging as an art of writing the self and imagining communities.\u201d Paper presented at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association, Vancouver, B.C.<\/p>\n

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