Melanie Revis
Biographic Data
| ID | 228129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Revis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Revis |
| SIGNATURE | REVIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus Liebig University, Giessen Department of English – English Language and Linguistics Otto‐Behaghel‐Str. 10B 35394 Giessen Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2039-0168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring the 'languaging habitus' of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand
The pragmatic nativisation of pauses in Asian Englishes
Studies within the world Englishes paradigm have furnished detailed descriptions of numerous lexical, morphological and syntactic features. Although laudable exceptions exist, pragmatics as well as the concept of pragmatic nativisation have so far been largely neglected in world Englishes - particularly from an empirical angle. The present paper investigates pauses - more specifically the choice between filled (for example, uh, uhm) and unfilled …
A Bourdieusian perspective on child agency in family language policy
This paper investigates child agency in Ethiopian and Colombian refugee families in New Zealand. Emerging scholarship has highlighted ways in which children’s actions may influence family language policies. However, the existing descriptions are typically not embedded in a wider social theory, and have generally not included refugees. This study draws on 3 years of ethnographic observations, interviews with 29 mothers and 17 children and recordin…
The pragmatic nativisation of pauses in Asian Englishes
Studies within the world Englishes paradigm have furnished detailed descriptions of numerous lexical, morphological and syntactic features. Although laudable exceptions exist, pragmatics as well as the concept of pragmatic nativisation have so far been largely neglected in world Englishes - particularly from an empirical angle. The present paper investigates pauses - more specifically the choice between filled (for example, uh, uhm) and unfilled …
Exploring the 'languaging habitus' of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand
A Bourdieusian perspective on child agency in family language policy
This paper investigates child agency in Ethiopian and Colombian refugee families in New Zealand. Emerging scholarship has highlighted ways in which children’s actions may influence family language policies. However, the existing descriptions are typically not embedded in a wider social theory, and have generally not included refugees. This study draws on 3 years of ethnographic observations, interviews with 29 mothers and 17 children and recordin…
The pragmatic nativisation of pauses in Asian Englishes
Studies within the world Englishes paradigm have furnished detailed descriptions of numerous lexical, morphological and syntactic features. Although laudable exceptions exist, pragmatics as well as the concept of pragmatic nativisation have so far been largely neglected in world Englishes - particularly from an empirical angle. The present paper investigates pauses - more specifically the choice between filled (for example, uh, uhm) and unfilled …
Exploring the 'languaging habitus' of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand
Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Habitus (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Sociocultural evolution (2 works)