How does language or culture come to be standardized to the degree that it is considered 'homogen...

This book investigates the ways in which Japanese 'language' and 'culture' have come to be sta...

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is rom...

The 'native speaker' is often thought of as an ideal language user with 'a complete and possib...

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key...

This volume examines the complexities created by Pokémon GO—the smartphone augmented realit...

Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience examines the inte...

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj A iA ek's notion ...

This volume explores "e;performative linguistic space"e;, namely a space which ushers or ...

This volume explores "e;performative linguistic space"e;, namely a space which ushers or ...

';Incompetence' is not an objective state lacking competence nor a kind of deficiency that needs ...

Language standardization is problematic because it imposes the dominant group's linguistic variet...