What's Language Got to Do with It? / Edition 1

by Keith Walters

Overview

Sociolinguists and writing teachers Walters (U. of Texas, Austin) and Brody (CIESAS Programa Penínsular, Yucatán, México) present a reader about language to help students in the U.S. think critically and analytically about the diverse forms of communication around them. Some 75 selections cover a variety of topics, including language as argument, how writing changes language, technology and language, multilingual USA, African American language, language and gender, communication in deaf communities, languages and national identities, and globalizing English. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900393978840
Publication date:	03/02/2005
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Keith Walters is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University, where he teaches sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Previously, he taught in the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas at Austin and in the English Department at The Ohio State University. Much of his research has focused on issues of language and identity in Tunisia, where he served as a Peace Corps volunteer, and in the Arab world more broadly. He’s the coauthor of two other textbooks, Everything’s an Argument with Readings and What’s Language Got to Do with It?

Michal Brody is a linguist, independent scholar, and lecturer. She was a founding faculty member of the Universidad de Oriente in Yucatán, Mexico. Her scholarly work centers on language pedagogy and politics in the United States and Mexico. She’s the author (with Keith Walters) of What’s Language Got to Do with It? and coauthor (with Richard Bullock and Francine Weinberg) of The Little Seagull Handbook, and the editor of the Everyone’s an Author Tumblr site and They Say / I Blog.