| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford studies in sociolinguistics |
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Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Contents |
Introduction : On yellow English and other perilous terms / Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes -- Styles and stereotypes : Laotian American girls' linguistic negotiation of identity / Mary Bucholtz -- Asian American stereotypes as circulating resource / Angela Reyes -- Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school / Adrienne Lo -- On using semiotic resources in a racist world : a commentary / Jane H. Hill -- "Talk about luck" : coherence, contingency, character, and class in the life stories of Filipino Canadians in Toronto / Bonnie McElhinny [and others] -- Turban narratives : discourses of identification and difference among Punjabi Sikh families in Los Angeles / Wendy L. Klein -- Constructing ethnic identity through discourse : self-categorization among Korean American camp counselors / M. Agnes Kang -- Who is "Japanese" in Hawai'i? The discursive construction of ethnic identity / Asuka Suzuki -- Communities and identities : fraught categories and anchoring resources : a commentary / Niko Besnier -- Arbitrating community norms : the use of English 'me' in Japanese discourse / Emi Morita -- Illegitimate speakers of English : negotiation of linguistic identity among Korean international students / Joseph Sung-Yul Park -- Bilingual creativity and self-negotiation : Korean American children's language socialization into Korean address terms / Juyoung Song -- Phonological and cultural innovations in the speech of Samoans in southern California / Alessandro Duranti and Jennifer F. Reynolds -- What do bilinguals do? A commentary / Asif Agha -- Ideologies of legitimate mockery : Margaret Cho's revoicings of mock Asian / Elaine W. Chun -- "We can laugh at ourselves" : Hawai'i ethnic humor, local identity, and the myth of multiculturalism / Roderick N. Labrador -- Reel to real : Desi teens' linguistic engagements with Bollywood / Shalini Shankar -- Perspective and the politics of representation : a commentary / Susan Gal -- Trading tongues : loss of heritage languages in the United States / Leanne Hinton -- Forever FOB? Resisting and reproducing the other in high school ESL / Steven Talmy -- Sequences, scripts, and subject pronouns in the construction of Chinese heritage identity / Agnes Weiyun He -- The emergence of language identity in cultural action : a commentary / Bonnie Urciuoli |
| Summary |
This volume examines issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. It cover topics such as media representations of APAs, codeswitching and language crossing, and narratives of ethnic identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- United States
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Asian Americans -- Languages
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Asian Americans and mass media.
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Language and education -- United States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Asian Americans and mass media
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Language and education
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Sociolinguistics
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reyes, Angela, 1970-
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Lo, Adrienne.
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| ISBN |
9780195327359 |
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0195327357 |
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9780195327366 |
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0195327365 |
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9780199716708 |
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0199716706 |
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