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LaDousa, Chaise – Language Sciences, 2010
This is an expanded version of a paper given at a conference held in Cape Town, South Africa from December 11-13, 2008 entitled "The Native Speaker and the Mother Tongue." In keeping with the conference's themes of exploring and interrogating the notions of "mother tongue" and "native speaker," I consider…
Descriptors: Social Life, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Ideology
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Morgan, Brian; Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Language Policy, 2009
This paper offers a dialogic discussion about several issues concerning call centers, including globalizing surges, modernity tropes and educational practices. Based on a critical discourse analysis of a document offering to train west-based entrepreneurs to assume managerial positions in call centers in India, the paper explores ways in which…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Variation, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices