"Shes American Now, I Dont Like That": Gendered Language Ideologies in a Laotian American Community

Invited Review Cryptobiosis and its control in North American ®shes

Cryptobiosis is caused by the haemo ̄agellates Cryptobia bullocki and Cryptobia salmositica. These parasites infect food ®shes (e.g. ̄ounders, salmon) on both the Atlantic and Paci®c coasts of North America and clinical signs of the disease include anaemia, and abdominal distention with ascites. The virulent factor in salmonid cryptobiosis, caused by C. salmositica, is a secretory metalloprotease...

Gendered academic adjustment among Asian American adolescents in an emerging immigrant community.

Research on the academic adjustment of immigrant adolescents has been predominately conducted in large cities among established migration areas. To broaden the field's restricted focus, data from 172 (58% female) Asian American adolescents who reside within a non-traditional or emerging immigrant community in the Southeastern US were used to examine gender differences in academic adjustment as ...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Berber language ideologies, maintenance, and contraction: Gendered variation in the indigenous margins of Morocco

Language contraction is shaped by the unequal distribution of power and resources, both between the language community and the dominant society, and within the contracting language community itself. Gender is connected to other social divisions and inequalities, rendering it central to processes of maintenance and loss. For indigenous groups struggling for recognition and rights, public acknowl...

Language in the American Courtroom

One of the most promising connections that linguistics can make to other fields is to the legal arena, primarily because much of the work in law is done in language and it is often largely about language, either spoken or written. For example, lawsuits, indictments, pleadings, briefs, legal opinions, and, of course, laws and statutes are all revealed and preserved in written language. Courtroom...