This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within discursiv…
This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within discursiv…
Hyperbolic Hybridities: Habla de negros and the Economies of Race and Language in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Theater explores literary representations of Africanized Spanish found in Peninsular Spanish poetry and theater written between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuri…
In the wake of nearly forty years of armed conflict, the Northern Irish Assembly announced the Victims' and Survivors' Order of 2006. This order categorized all victims, civilian and paramilitary members, as beneficiaries of compensatory schemes and social services developed to …
Personal Status Laws in Egypt are the secular translation of religious law into the modern legal system. These laws address a variety of issues, but are mainly concerned with regulation of the family and marital relationships. Personal Status Laws are politically controversial, …
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…
This dissertation explores the production and maintenance of difference among Tamil and Muslim adolescents in Kandy, Sri Lanka, under the conditions of an ongoing civil war between the Sri Lankan government and a Tamil insurgency group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE…
Moroccan Immigrant Children in a Time of Surveillance: Navigating Sameness and Rooted in twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in Southwestern Spain, this dissertation analyzes the socio-cultural and linguistic lifeworlds of 8-11 year-old Moroccan immigrant children as they na…
How are beliefs about the nature of knowledge reflected and reproduced in language use? It is clear that some linguistic resources, e.g. the modal verbs may and must, indicate one’s epistemic stance with respect to a proposition, i.e. one’s judgement of how likely it is to be tr…
This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and…
