Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Mixed
Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of …

This chapter explores the model of “nested interculturality”(Avineri, 2015), a collective of
dispositions and practices for ethical intercultural engagement that can be used to navigate …

This book proposes the concept of" fictional contamination" to capture the fact that
fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative …

Using data from interviews, surveys, and observations, this chapter analyzes Hebrew
language socialization in Jewish complementary schools in the United States. Rather than …

International travel is still commonly touted as one of the most effective tools for language
learning, yet it remains an elusive activity for those without a certain amount of economic or …

In this study, Boitel offers a political and semiotic perspective on “proficiency”. He argues that
instead of understanding proficiency primarily as “language competence”, we should …

This chapter demonstrates that metalinguistic communities can draw on language
ideologies about non-group members to construct their own social identity. Drawing on data …

Engaged linguistic anthropology (ELA) is characterized by a commitment to cultivating
ongoing relationships and mutual accountability with communities in the service of …

This paper investigates how Hebrew is taught and perceived at American part-time Jewish
schools, based on surveys of 519 school directors, classroom observations, and 376 …

The introduction chapter opens with a framing discussion of the semiotic uses of language
as a symbol in itself, rather than as a carrier of semantic meaning—and points out the …