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In Speaking Culturally Fern Johnson probes the rich cultural legacies and deep cultural dimensions underlying discourse in the United States. This culturally rich examination of discourse places the changing demographics of the United States in linguistic perspective and draws upon the author’s "language-centered perspective on culture" to illuminate the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Language is placed in the context of the histories, multiplicities, and cultural themes influencing its users.
Bilingual Education, Ebonics, and the Ideology of “Standard English”
Bilingual Education, Ebonics, and the Ideology of “Standard English”
No language policy issue so clearly exposes the conflicting impulses about cultural diversity in the United States as bilingual education. Advocates believe bilingual education is critical both to ...
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