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Diversifying "English" at the Decolonial Turn
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Suresh Canagarajah – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
In this brief forum article, I draw from the disciplinary orientation of linguistic anthropology to discuss how a collection of linguistic and semiotic resources gets "enregistered" as the "language" for specific communicative activities. Enregisterment is an ongoing social and ideological process whereby a semiotic corpus gets…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decolonization
"Before the Storm, There Wasn't Much of a Thought. When Katrina Happened, That Changed Everything:" Social Network Geometry, Discourses of Threat, and English Usage among Latinxs in Post-Katrina New Orleans
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Lewis, Thomas D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation presents the results of a tripartite exploration of English use by Latinxs in post-Katrina New Orleans, defined here as an ethnolinguistic repertoire that I call New Orleans Latinx English (NOLAE). The project considers how contemporary English use differs from that found in a pre-Katrina sample, how social network geometry…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Spanish, Language Variation, Vowels
Public, Private, Past, and Present: An Exploration of the Language and Musical Structures of Kotiria/Wanano Women's "Kaya Basa" "Sad Songs"
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Hosemann, Aimee J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores the way Kotiria/Wanano (E. Tukanoan, Kotiria hereafter) women of the Brazilian "Alto Rio Negro" (ARN) contrive (McDowell 1990) "kaya basa" "sad songs" using linguistic and musical resources to construct songs that express loneliness and other private emotions, while also creating alliances…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Females, Foreign Countries