Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Cade Bushnell, Stephen J. Moody
May 06, 2025
Bushnell and Moody present a rich investigation into the navigation of friendships, adopting discursive and ethnographic perspectives to examine Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English interactional data. Since the definition of friendship is hard to pin down, most sociocultural anthropologists ...
Language, Diaspora, Home: Identity and Women’s Linguistic Space-Making
1st Edition
By Heather Robinson
November 28, 2024
This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home....
Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools
1st Edition
By Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella
May 31, 2023
This book offers a linguistic ethnographic account of secondary schooling in Umbria, Italy, examining the complex intersection of language, socioeconomic class, social persona, and school choice to provide a holistic portrait of the situatedness of student “success.” The book explores the everyday ...
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of Language and Race in South Africa
1st Edition
By Stephanie Rudwick
May 31, 2023
Grounded in ethnography, this monograph explores the ambiguity of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics of language and race in contemporary South Africa. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach which highlights how ways of speaking English constructs identities in a ...
Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi: Cultivating Linguistic Diversity in an Australian Community
1st Edition
By Ruth Singer
February 22, 2023
This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an ethnographic approach, the book examines what ...