4 There is an irony here, in that Douglas Hyde and many of the other leaders in the Irish literary and language revival were, in fact, Protestant, members of the Anglo- Irish ascendancy (see Pritchard, 2004; Tanner, 2004; Edwards, ...
O'Barr (1982) would argue that in fact the features Lakoff identified should not be considered part of 'women's language', but of 'powerless language', since their occurrence is in fact greater among men or women who occupy low-prestige ...
These accounts build in many ways on the seminal work of Butler (1990, 1997) and Gee (1999), who posit that all human action and activity is meaningful and purposeful, and in the performance constructs a social identity in an agentive ...
Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: the English language in the outer circle. ... “At least I'm the type of teacher I want to be”: Second-career English language teachers' identity formation in Hong Kong secondary ...
This book also demonstrates the socio-economic opportunities offered by language choice and the cultural allegiances of language, where groups have been able to create new lives for themselves by embracing new languages in new countries.