In a skit from the Comedy Central show Key and Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, a comedian of
African American and European American heritage, plays Mr. Garvey, a black substitute …

The writing of this book was spurred by both personal commitment and academic interest. In
the winter of 1996 a good friend and colleague, Costas Magos, 1 alerted me to the existence …

This paper examines the increasing role of English in the modern day mass media of
Thailand, and the rapid increase in the use of English names and code‐mixing since the …

This study proposes grounding as a theoretical approach to studying linguistic landscape
(LL). Grounding is the positioning or sequencing of languages in a multilingual 'text'to reveal …

This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by
Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political …

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and
media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book …

Newcomers to Canada whose names index identities other than" white" and" English" face
pressure to alter their names to facilitate integration. Some immigrants oppose the forces of …

In this article, I discuss the anthropological value of focusing on ontological processes in
which seemingly local, native, or indigenous people are reclassified as foreigners. Building …

This chapter examines how publically viewable text in the landscape, generally termed the
linguistic landscape, not only reflects the linguistic ecology of the place, but can also be …

Names are obvious markers of identity and denote various community memberships of an
individual. Names also help to negotiate between an individual's various social identities …