Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 8, 2009
Hillbilly Spanish and Tarzan English: Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant Language by Stanton Wortham, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania In this paper, written with Elaine Allard and Katherine Mortimer, we conceptualize the beliefs and attitudes of Mexican immigrants and long-time residents of the Mid Atlantic suburban town of Marshall as language ideologies, culturally-situated…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 16, 2007
Too Much and Not Enough Identity: Constituting English in Asian Language Policy Circles by Joseph Lo Bianco, Chair of Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne, Australia This lecture discusses recent and long-standing attributions of both cultural neutrality and bias in and for English. The lecture will trace both recent and longer term associations of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 23, 2005
Metaphors to Die For: Towards a Rhetoric of National Symbols by Michael Geisler, Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad, Professor in Linguistics and Languages, Middlebury College, Vermont Panel of Respondents Fayton Henderson, Assistant Coordinator, German Mark Kaiser, Associate Director of the BLC Karen Moller, Coordinator, Scandinavian Sonia Shiri, Coordinator, Arabic More than mere decoration…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 7, 2005
Ladies from the Philippines are more compatible with American gentlemen than American women: The Linguistic Construction of Identities on Mail-order-bride Websites by Ingrid Piller, Professor and Chair, English Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of English as a Global Language English Department, Basel University, Switzerland The “mail-order bride industry” has boomed in recent years, and the outsourcing…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 19, 2005
Linguistic and Cultural Identity in Study Abroad by Rick Kern, Associate Professor, Director, French Language Program & Timothy Wolcott, Graduate Student, School of Education Empirical studies of study abroad that track language acquisition gains in terms of specific structures show mixed results. Many students report, moreover, that language acquisition is just a small part of…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 5, 2003
Colloquium: Language, Identity and Change in the Modern Arab World: Implications for the Study of Language and Culture Social History, Political History, and Dialect Prestige in the Arab World: The Cases of Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq Clive Holes, Oxford University UniversityNegotiating Diaspora: Translation and the Language of Exile Ibrahim Muhawi, Edinburgh Identity and Language…