R. Harris

New Ethnicities and Language Use

Herausgegeben:Loparo, Kenneth A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility that marks them as Brasians .

Produktdetails

• Language and Globalization
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-9894-1
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 147mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781403998941
• ISBN-10: 1403998949
• Artikelnr.: 22698731

Autorenporträt

Roxy Harris is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, UK. He has a particular interest in the relationships between language, power, ethnicity and culture and has researched, taught and published on these issues in London for many years.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Researching Ethnicities and Cultures Language Use and Ethnicity: Mapping the Terrain New Ethnicities as Lived Experience How You Talk is Who You Are 'My Culture', 'My Language', My Religion': Communities, Practices and Diasporas Popular Culture, Ethnicities and Tastes What is Brasian? Appendices Notes Bibliography Index