Petra Scott Shenk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Scott Shenk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Shenk |
| SIGNATURE | SHENK P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth
Angela Reyes . Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian . Mahwah , New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum . 2007 . 183 pp . Hb (0805855394) $69.95 . Reviewed by Petra S. Shenk Angela Reyes' ethnographic study of Southeast Asian American youth is situated within well-established theories of language and identity and grounded in sound sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropology, and discourse-analytic methodologi…
I'm Mexican, remember?' Constructing ethnic identities via authenticating discourse1
This paper examines how an ideology of cultural authenticity emerges in the casual but playful conversations of a bilingual Mexican American friendship group. Authenticating discourse, as illustrated here, is part of an ongoing, ordinary interactional routine through which speakers take overt (authentication) stances, which I callauthenticating moves, to display, impugn, vie for, and enact forms of ethnic identity. In the data, issues of authenti…
The interactional and syntactic importance of prosody in Spanish-English bilingual discourse
This paper highlights prosody as a fundamental feature of bilingual conversation. My data show that syntactic structure does not impose constraints on codeswitching, as one prevalent line of inquiry regarding codeswitching claims, but rather certain discourse structures make codeswitching at any given point more or less cognitively and interactionally profitable according to conversationalists' ability to produce and comprehend information. My co…
I'm Mexican, remember?' Constructing ethnic identities via authenticating discourse1
This paper examines how an ideology of cultural authenticity emerges in the casual but playful conversations of a bilingual Mexican American friendship group. Authenticating discourse, as illustrated here, is part of an ongoing, ordinary interactional routine through which speakers take overt (authentication) stances, which I callauthenticating moves, to display, impugn, vie for, and enact forms of ethnic identity. In the data, issues of authenti…
The interactional and syntactic importance of prosody in Spanish-English bilingual discourse
This paper highlights prosody as a fundamental feature of bilingual conversation. My data show that syntactic structure does not impose constraints on codeswitching, as one prevalent line of inquiry regarding codeswitching claims, but rather certain discourse structures make codeswitching at any given point more or less cognitively and interactionally profitable according to conversationalists' ability to produce and comprehend information. My co…
I'm Mexican, remember?' Constructing ethnic identities via authenticating discourse1
This paper examines how an ideology of cultural authenticity emerges in the casual but playful conversations of a bilingual Mexican American friendship group. Authenticating discourse, as illustrated here, is part of an ongoing, ordinary interactional routine through which speakers take overt (authentication) stances, which I callauthenticating moves, to display, impugn, vie for, and enact forms of ethnic identity. In the data, issues of authenti…
Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth
Angela Reyes . Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian . Mahwah , New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum . 2007 . 183 pp . Hb (0805855394) $69.95 . Reviewed by Petra S. Shenk Angela Reyes' ethnographic study of Southeast Asian American youth is situated within well-established theories of language and identity and grounded in sound sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropology, and discourse-analytic methodologi…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)