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Yang, Miaoyan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This paper examines Tibetan ethnicity by studying the language ideologies among Tibetan students and their persistent roles in shaping ethnic boundaries at a Minzu University (MU). MU attracts the highest achieving ethnic minority students throughout China and explicitly aims to turn them into patriotic minority cadres. Hosting extremely…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ethnicity, Minority Groups, Patriotism
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Banda, Felix; Peck, Amiena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
We draw on Rampton's "Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents" (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of "crossing" to explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a university built for "Coloureds" in apartheid South Africa, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Self Concept, Cultural Pluralism
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Cargile, Aaron Castelan; Takai, Jiro; Rodriguez, Jose I. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine attitudes towards African-American vernacular English (AAVE) in a setting outside of the USA. Because foreign attitudes toward AAVE can serve as an indirect assessment of a society's racial prejudice, we decided to explore these attitudes in Japan: a country with an intriguing mix of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, African Americans, Black Dialects