Language in Immigrant America

Auteur

Dominika Baran is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University, North Carolina, specializing in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology in transnational contexts. Her interest in language and immigration in the United States stems partly from her own background as a political refugee from Poland who settled in New York at age fifteen and spoke only minimal English. Her ongoing projects include a discourse analytic study of narratives of migration among Polish immigrants in Anglophone countries.

Texte du rabat

Explores the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States.

Résumé
Baran explores the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States in this timely book. It challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity from a historical and a current political context. An accessible overview of the key issues in this hotly debated topic on language and ethnicity is provided.

Contenu

Introduction; 1. Whose America?; 2. The alien specter then and now; 3. Hyphenated identity; 4. Foreign accents and immigrant Englishes; 5. Multilingual practices; 6. Immigrant children and language; 7. American becomings.