Conceptualizations of competence that permeate applied linguistics systematically fail to
account for the role of racialization in language learning and assessments thereof. To …

Although language can always be analyzed as a commodity, its salience as a resource with
exchange value has increased with the growing importance of language in the globalized …

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and
ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty …

How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped
by their social positions and values? How is difference, in language and in social life, made …

The implementation of translanguaging at school is often seen to have transformative
capacities: it will release bilingual subjectivities, and change unequal social structures. In …

This article examines the racialized relationship between ideologies of language
standardization and what I term “languagelessness.” Whereas ideologies of language …

Drawing on the latest developments in bilingual and multilingual research, The Multilingual
Turn offers a critique of, and alternative to, still-dominant monolingual theories, pedagogies …

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the
fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health …

Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and
resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world …

Since its original publication in 1997, Rosina Lippi-Green's English with an Accent has
inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, social categorization …