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.
A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture.
Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper N
This book introduces a first year of guided instruction for teaching Amazonian Quichua language and life. It covers two varieties of Quichua spoken in Ecuador, Pastaza, and Upper Napo in twenty lessons that include practice exercises, grammatical explanations, and cultural highlights with links to audiovisual stories, songs, and conversations.
Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.
This book investigates how intricately language, food, and culture interact in Japanese society and culture. Natsuko Tsujimura approaches the language of food in Japanese as a vital component of communication by examining intrinsic mechanisms of the language and the broader social meaning it brings to society.
This unique volume brings together findings from six separate but interconnected studies, carried out over seven years in the same small bilingual elementary school. During a period of rapid gentrification in Austin, Texas, Hillside Elementary transformed from a predominantly Latinx, under-resourced and under-enrolled neighborhood school with a ......
This book argues for centrality of language to address Africa's developmental challenges. It contends for the empowerment of African languages to serve in all domains, and it propagates ways to empower African languages for African socio-cultural and economic development in the twenty-first century.
This book examines the role of complaining in conversation and online interaction in Korean, analyzing linguistic characteristics for complaining, organizational features of complaining including the responses, and socio-cultural norms and identities constructed in the course of complaining.
The specific-and varied-ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern. This tripartite work highlights contemporary research exploring innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.
