Despite the frequent references to identity within the field of heritage language education, it
is only in the past decade or so that scholars have begun to conduct empirical research on …

In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display
identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles-preppies, hip hop …

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field
of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now …

This chapter will sketch some current findings, questions, and trends in approaches to the
study of language variation and identity. The term “identity” functions outside of linguistics to …

Much socialization of children into healthy food practices takes place in the educational
system. However, teachers' understandings of healthy food may differ from those of students …

The study of language and social life has been an interdisciplinary endeavor since its
beginnings, led by scholars housed in a range of departments in different parts of the world …

Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure
exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent …

In computer-mediated communication, social categories such as race and ethnicity have to
be actively performed and constructed by participants in order to gain visibility; it can be …

This study merges sociocultural linguistic work on identity construction in interaction with the
study of epistemic management in conversation analysis (CA). While some CA scholars …

The rise of the commodified city has encouraged new attention to the symbolic systems that
structure our understandings of difference and inequality in urban areas. This paper …