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Review of Kim Potowski & Jason Rothman, eds. âBilingual Youth: Spanish in English-Speaking Societiesâ
Accomplishing marginalization in bilingual interaction: relational work as a resource for the intersubjective construction of identity
This paper examines the use of impoliteness by SpanishâEnglish bilingual pre-adolescents as a resource for accomplishing identities in spontaneous conversational interactions in an elementary school setting. The theoretical approach employed integrates the concept of relational work (Locher 2004; Locher and Watts 2005), which is based on Goffman\u27s (1967) notion of face and which privileges participants\u27 evaluation of language behavior within the norms of the community of practice, with recent work in sociocultural linguistics (Bucholtz and Hall 2004a, 2004b, 2005). This approach views identity as an interactional achievement reached through the use of what they call tactics of intersubjectivity. In this analysis, negatively marked, non-politic behavior is viewed as an interactional resource, which, along with other resources such as codeswitching, bilingual speakers may employ for the purposes of alignment and stance-taking. Specifically, the paper examines how speakers use strategies referred to as impolite (cf. Culpeper 1996) in the performance of a variety of tactics of intersubjectivity to manage local identities (e.g., leader/follower, insider/outsider) as well as membership in broad social categories (e.g., gender, ethnic identities) in interaction, how they engage in conflict talk and what they gain from it, and how codeswitching is (and is not) used in interactions. This analysis is situated within the wider social context of language politics and immigration politics in the individual school, the region, and the US
Transformation of China\u27s Landscape: Assessing the Multiple Scales of Change in Shanghai, Beijing, and along the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River
Intersecting communities, interwoven identities: questioning boundaries, testing bridges, and forging a queer latinidad in the U.S. Southwest
This contribution to the special issue on âLanguages in Contact, Cultures in Conflict: English and Spanish in the USAâ aims to investigate the concept of queer latinidad in Phoenix, Arizona in an attempt to understand how queer Latin@s in Phoenix see themselves in relation to Latino communities, queer communities, and a queer Latino community. While questioning received notions of âcommunity,â we look at how queer latinidad is constructed or rejected by queer Latinas/os in Phoenix at the dawn of the twenty-first century precisely as national attention has been focused on the state of Arizona, and how this negotiation might blur traditional notions of community and question boundaries between communities by highlighting the racial and ethnic diversity of the (presumed Anglo) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, as well as the gender and sexual diversities of the (presumed heterosexual) Latino community
Homophobic slurs and public apologies: the discursive struggle over fag/maricĂłn in public discourse
A handful of recent incidents hints at an ideological struggle over the use of the English word fag(got) and the Spanish word maricĂłn in public discourse. This article examines the discursive and ideological struggle over the terms through the comparison of two cases in which Spanish/English bilingual Latinos in the U. S. use what might be considered homophobic slurs in public discourse in two distinct contexts â an informal, off-record sports-related press conference and a radio talk show political interview. The three main aims of the article are to examine and compare the content and context of the two public apologies, to examine the discursive and ideological struggle over the appropriateness of fag/maricĂłn in public discourse through the evaluation of their use, and to contextualize the two case studies within the research on the construction of homophobia in discourse
Energy release in the solar atmosphere from a stream of infalling prominence debris
Recent high-resolution and high-cadence EUV imaging has revealed a new
phenomenon, impacting prominence debris, where prominence material from failed
or partial eruptions can impact the lower atmosphere, releasing energy. We
report a clear example of energy release and EUV brightening due to infalling
prominence debris that occurred on 2011 September 7-8. The initial eruption of
material was associated with an X1.8-class flare from AR11283, occurring at
22:30 UT on 2011 September 7. Subsequently, a semi-continuous stream of this
material returned to the solar surface with a velocity v > 150 km/s, impacting
a region remote from the original active region between 00:20 - 00:40 UT on
2011 September 8. Using SDO/AIA, the differential emission measure of the
plasma was estimated throughout this brightening event. We found that the
radiated energy of the impacted plasma was L_rad ~10^27 ergs, while the thermal
energy peaked at ~10^28 ergs. From this we were able to determine the mass
content of the debris to be in the range 2x10^14 < m < 2x10^15 g. Given typical
promimence masses, the likely debris mass is towards the lower end of this
range. This clear example of a prominence debris event shows that significant
energy release takes place during these events, and that such impacts may be
used as a novel diagnostic tool for investigating prominence material
properties.Comment: Accepted by AstroPhysical Journal Letters, 6 pages, 5 figure
Pests and Agricultural Production under Climate Change
Although the effect of climate change on agricultural pests has been studied by biologists, thus far, large-scale assessments of climate change and agriculture have not included the impact of pests. We develop a simple theoretical model of farmer-pest interaction under climate change and explore the potential impacts on land values.Environmental Economics and Policy,
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