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Language and identities
Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group, regional and national. It …
Based on detailed, empirical evidence, this collection offers insights into how we use language to construct, maintain and project multi-faceted identities as they emerge in differing contexts.
Politics and poetics of belonging
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. …
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. …
In the past few years in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) there has been an overwhelming focus on the use of English at all levels of education, in both public and private schools. In addition, the UAE has given English a fairly central role in both the educational sphere and with…
The demographic changes in the U.S. have contributed to linguistic, cultural, and ethnic diversification of today’s society; however, monolingual ideologies continue to define many societal and academic discourses due to their historical roots (Matsuda, 2006; Wiley, 2014). One a…
The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct a sociocultural linguistic study on Ethiopian immigrants in the Denver metropolis. It specifically examined language practice of Ethiopian immigrants at home and in church. The study centered on three Ethiopian Orthodox parish chur…
This dissertation is dedicated to exploring the connections between linguistic practice and Jewish Mexican social life amidst shifting patterns of religiosity, education, and interethnic relations more generally. Mexico City's Jewish communities have experienced important change…