▪ Abstract Academic knowledge of human linguistic diversity owes much to descriptions
written, over four centuries ago, under the aegis of European colonial regimes around the …

This article reviews the developments in significant pedagogical and research domains in
TESOL during the 50‐year history of TESOL Quarterly. It situates these developments in the …

Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-
Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014 Translingual …

In many ways, the study of linguistic anthropology is the study of language and identity. The
field's concern with the linguistic production of culture entails a concern with the variety of …

Though the relationship of language and thought has received much academic and popular
attention,''thoughts about language''by their speakers have, by comparison, been neglected …

This entry briefly explores 'language ideologies' as beliefs, feelings, and conceptions about
language structure and use which often index the political economic interests of individual …

In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference,
political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination …

Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic
anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies …

How do linguistic form and function interact? What is the relationship between linguistic
structures and societal structures? How does language change take place? How do …

The speed, intensity, and extent of contemporary global transformations chal-lenge many of
the assumptions that have guided the analysis of culture over the last several decades …