English And Ethnicity

English and Ethnicitypresents the work of scholars from a range of disciplines (linguistics and sociolinguistics, literary studies, cultural anthropology, communications, African American studies, and education) to examine the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that both the constructs ofEnglishandethnicityare contested sites of identity formation in the modern world. English is not a monolithic linguistic entity with one "standard" form, but a highly complex linguistic construct where variation can be conveyed through shifts at all levels of linguistic organization (prosodic, phonological, lexical, pragmatic, discoursal). Ethnicity intersects with other aspects of sociocultural identitye.g., race, class, genderall or none of which may be signaled linguistically. The volume illustrates that while for some English use indexes ethnicity, for others its usage may involve processes ofde-ethnicization.English and Ethnicityenriches our understanding of the contemporary dialogue on the role of English in the global context in relation to heritage languages, language policy, and language maintenance.

Janina Brutt-Griffler is Associate Professor of Foreign and Second Language Acquisition at The State University of New York, Buffalo. Catherine Evans Davies is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Alabama.

Part I: Frameworks * The Discursive Framing of Phonological Acts of Identity: Welshness through English--Nikolas Coupland * A Sociolinguistics of ‘Double-Consciousness’: English and Ethnicity in the Black Experience--Alamin A. Mazrui * Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect--Yunte Huang * Part II: Representations * Representing Jewish Identity through English--Cynthia Goldin Bernstein * Linguistic Displays of Identity among Dominicans in National and Diasporic Settings--A. Jacqueline Toribio * Part III: Contexts * Speaking for Ourselves: Indigenous Cultural Integrity and Continuance--Simon J. Ortiz * English and the Construction of Aboriginal Identities in the Eastern Canadian Arctic--Donna Patrick * Constructing a Diaspora Identity in English: The Case of Sri Lankan Tamils--A. Suresh Canagarajah * Part IV: Connections * Teaching English among Linguistically Diverse Students--John Bough * Playing with Race in Transnational Space: Rethinking Mestizaje--Marcia Farr *African American Vernacular English: Roots and Branches--John Rickford * Race and Ethnicity in the English-speaking World--Janina Brutt-Griffler Part I: Frameworks * The Discursive Framing of Phonological Acts of Identity: Welshness through English--Nikolas Coupland * A Sociolinguistics of ‘Double-Consciousness’: English and Ethnicity in the Black Experience--Alamin A. Mazrui * Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect--Yunte Huang * Part II: Representations * Representing Jewish Identity through English--Cynthia Goldin Bernstein * Linguistic Displays of Identity among Dominicans in National and Diasporic Settings--A. Jacqueline Toribio * Part III: Contexts * Speaking for Ourselves: Indigenous Cultural Integrity and Continuance--Simon J. Ortiz * English and the Construction of Aboriginal Identities in the Eastern Canadian Arctic--Donna Patrick * Constructing a Diaspora Identity in English: The Case of Sri Lankan Tamils--A. Suresh Canagarajah * Part IV: Connections * Teaching English among Linguistically Diverse Students--John Bough * Playing with Race in Transnational Space: Rethinking Mestizaje--Marcia Farr *African American Vernacular English: Roots and Branches--John Rickford * Race and Ethnicity in the English-speaking World--Janina Brutt-Griffler