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Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Editor; Bridget Goodman, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking "inward" at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Race, Language Variation, Language Attitudes
Algeo, John, Ed. – 2001
This book is one volume in a series that examines the history of English. It traces the history of English in North America during the past 400 years, from its British background to its present position among the varieties of English used worldwide. Influences that have formed American English include political, social, and cultural changes in…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Ainsworth-Darnell, Kim, Ed.; D'Imperio, Mariapaola, Ed. – 1997
Research reports included in this volume of working papers in linguistics are: "Perception of Consonant Clusters and Variable Gap Time" (Mike Cahill); "Near-Merger in Russian Palatalization" (Erin Diehm, Keith Johnson); "Breadth of Focus, Modality, and Prominence Perception in Neapolitan Italian" (Mariapaola…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1994
This volume on pragmatics and language learning includes the following: "'Cultural Scripts': A Semantic Approach to Cultural Analysis and Cross-Cultural Communication" (Anna Wierzbicka); "Issues in Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Context" (Ayo Bamgbose); "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research and the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Counseling