Beyond Yellow English
Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2008
420 pages
978-0-19-971670-8 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. The distinguished contributors-who represent a broad range of perspectives from anthropology, sociolinguistics, English, and education-focus on the analysis of spoken interaction and explore multiple facets of the APA experience. Authors cover topics such as media representations of APAs; codeswitching and language crossing; and narratives of ethnic identity. The collection examines the experiences of Asian Pacific Americans of different ethnicities, generations, ages, and geographic locations across home, school, community, and performance sites.
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Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America
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Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America
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Oxford University Press Inc
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Angele Reyes is Associate Professor of English, Hunter College.
Adrienne Lo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1. Introduction: On Yellow English and Other Perilous Terms
- Part I: Interactional Positionings of Selves and Identities
- 2. Styles and Stereotypes: Laotian American Girls' Linguistic Negotiation of Identity
- 3. Asian American Stereotypes as Circulating Resource
- 4. Evidentiality and Morality in a Korean Heritage Language School
- 5. On Using Semiotic Resources in a Racist World: A Commentary
- Part II: Discursive Constitutions of Groups and Communities
- 6. "Talk about Luck": Coherence, Contingency, Character, and Class in the Life Stories of Filipino Canadians in Toronto
- 7. Turban Narratives: Discourses of Identification and Difference among Punjabi Sikh Families in Los Angeles
- 8. Constructing Ethnic Identity through Discourse: Self-Categorization among Korean American Camp Counselors
- 9. Who Is "Japanese" in Hawai'i?: The Discursive Construction of Ethnic Identity
- 10. Communities and Identities: Fraught Categories and Anchoring Resources: A Commentary
- Part III: Languages in Contact
- 11. Arbitrating Community Norms: The Use of English Me in Japanese Discourse
- 12. Illegitimate Speakers of English: Negotiation of Linguistic Identity among Korean International Students
- 13. Bilingual Creativity and Self-Negotiation: Korean American Children's Language Socialization into Korean Address Terms
- 14. Phonological and Cultural Innovations in the Speech of Samoans in Southern California
- 15. What Do Bilinguals Do?: A Commentary
- Part IV: Linguistic Practices in Media Contexts
- 16. Ideologies of Legitimate Mockery: Margaret Cho's Revoicings of Mock Asian
- 17. "We Can Laugh at Ourselves": Hawai'i Ethnic Humor, Local Identity, and the Myth of Multiculturalism
- 18. Reel to Real: Desi Teens' Linguistic Engagements with Bollywood
- 19. Perspective and the Politics of Representation: A Commentary
- Part V: Educational Institutions and Language Acquisition
- 20. Trading Tongues: Loss of Heritage Languages in the United States
- 21. Forever FOB?: Resisting and Reproducing the Other in High School ESL
- 22. Sequences, Scripts, and Subject Pronouns in the Construction of Chinese Heritage Identity
- 23. The Emergence of Language Identity in Cultural Action: A Commentary
- Index
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