Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Brown and Thompson argue that Spanish language education needs to evolve to reflect changes in the U.S.'s sociocultural, socioeducational, and sociopolitical landscape. They provide coherent and compelling discussion of the most pressing issues facing Spanish post-secondary education and strategies for turning these challenges into opportunities.
In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC-to explore the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language.
Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. This title illustrates how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture.
"Talking Difference" is a re-evaluation of current wisdom - both academic and popular - about men's and women's language. Mary Crawford critically assesses the abundant social science research of recent years, and its representation in the mass media, from talk shows to self-help books. Why has the study of gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women's talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why do assertiveness texts usually ignore indirect modes of speech such as humour and storytelling? Addressing such questions, the book offers a new understanding of the role of language practices in both maintaining and disrupting gender inequality. It will be interesting reading for students and lecturers in psychology, women's studies, socio-linguistics and communication studies.
"Talking Difference" is a re-evaluation of current wisdom - both academic and popular - about men's and women's language. Mary Crawford critically assesses the abundant social science research of recent years, and its representation in the mass media, from talk shows to self-help books. Why has the study of gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women's talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why do assertiveness texts usually ignore indirect modes of speech such as humour and storytelling? Addressing such questions, the book offers a new understanding of the role of language practices in both maintaining and disrupting gender inequality. It will be interesting reading for students and lecturers in psychology, women's studies, socio-linguistics and communication studies.
This book reveals how marginalized communities and women are underrepresented on our screens and, too often, depicted in stereotypical ways. This is doubly true for marginalized speakers--those who speak traditionally "nonstandard" dialects. Lindsey Clouse examines the origins of linguistic prejudice and how our public schools perpetuate the myth ......
Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. The author highlights the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.'
Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. The author highlights the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.'
Discusses the varieties of Spanish spoken in California, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Texas. This title addresses language maintenance, syntactic variation, language use and language teaching, and includes studies on socioeconomic, political, and cultural aspects of language in the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.
Examines the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. In this title, nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua.
Suitable for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship, this title offers an overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. It addresses the central role of education within the field.
Provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised Ejercicios de Reflexion along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text.
Evinces author's deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. This title demonstrates author's sense of the obligation that linguists have to educate the public about why linguistic diversity is valuable. It deals with a number of specific but related topics.
Contributing to linguistics and discourse analysis, this book examines how individuals construct themselves and their actions through the transformative power of language. The first three chapters assess the established literature on accountability practices. The following four chapters test received wisdom through close examination of accounts in specific social contexts. The final chapter reviews the theoretical controversies in terms of the social contexts. The book is intended for academics and researchers in interpersonal communication, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.
Contributing to linguistics and discourse analysis, this book examines how individuals construct themselves and their actions through the transformative power of language. The first three chapters assess the established literature on accountability practices. The following four chapters test received wisdom through close examination of accounts in specific social contexts. The final chapter reviews the theoretical controversies in terms of the social contexts. The book is intended for academics and researchers in interpersonal communication, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.
This book provides analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words and their impact in practices of linguistic communication usually related to the discrimination or segregation of certain human groups.
This book provides analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words and their impact in practices of linguistic communication usually related to the discrimination or segregation of certain human groups.
