English and Ethnicity

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This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity formation.

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JANINA BRUTT-GRIFFLER is Associate Professor of Foreign and Second Language Acquisition at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. CATHERINE EVANS DAVIES is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Alabama, USA. At the time of the symposium from which the current volume is drawn, she was director of the graduate programs in applied linguistics (the M.A.-TESOL Program, and the Applied Linguistics concentration in the English Ph.D.: Discourse, Culture, and English Language Studies).

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