Miranda Weinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Weinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1234-4022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“I Learned That My Name Is Spelled Wrong”
Globally many minority and Indigenous communities are searching for ways to reclaim languages that have been marginalized by socioeconomic and political processes. These efforts often involve novel literacy practices. In this article, we draw from ethnographic data in Mexico and Nepal to ask, what are the opportunities and constraints of teaching writing in support of Indigenous language reclamation? Writing is simultaneously an attraction and a …
Scale-making, power and agency in arbitrating school-level language planning decisions
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal’s government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a situation where inaction maintained the language policy status quo. This ethnography of language policy…
Taking Down Barcelona in Kathmandu
In June 2012, student activists in Nepal declared a campaign against private, for-profit colleges with foreign names, simultaneously decrying the schools’ names and their exorbitant tuition fees. During the campaign, members of multiple student unions vandalized signboards, buildings, computers, and buses belonging to various colleges and filed a court case demanding stricter management of private schools. These activists claimed control of the l…
Ways of Talking (and Acting) About Language Reclamation
The experiences of a community of people learning and teaching Lenape in Pennsylvania provide insights into the complexities of current ways of talking and acting about language reclamation. We illustrate how Native and non-Native participants in a university-based Indigenous language class constructed language, identity, and place in nuanced ways that, although influenced by essentializing discourses of language endangerment, are largely plurali…
Who can speak Lenape in Pennsylvania? Authentication and language learning in an endangered language community of practice
The Word and the World
Scale-making, power and agency in arbitrating school-level language planning decisions
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal’s government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a situation where inaction maintained the language policy status quo. This ethnography of language policy…
Ways of Talking (and Acting) About Language Reclamation
The experiences of a community of people learning and teaching Lenape in Pennsylvania provide insights into the complexities of current ways of talking and acting about language reclamation. We illustrate how Native and non-Native participants in a university-based Indigenous language class constructed language, identity, and place in nuanced ways that, although influenced by essentializing discourses of language endangerment, are largely plurali…
Who can speak Lenape in Pennsylvania? Authentication and language learning in an endangered language community of practice
Taking Down Barcelona in Kathmandu
In June 2012, student activists in Nepal declared a campaign against private, for-profit colleges with foreign names, simultaneously decrying the schools’ names and their exorbitant tuition fees. During the campaign, members of multiple student unions vandalized signboards, buildings, computers, and buses belonging to various colleges and filed a court case demanding stricter management of private schools. These activists claimed control of the l…
The Word and the World
Ways of Talking (and Acting) About Language Reclamation
The experiences of a community of people learning and teaching Lenape in Pennsylvania provide insights into the complexities of current ways of talking and acting about language reclamation. We illustrate how Native and non-Native participants in a university-based Indigenous language class constructed language, identity, and place in nuanced ways that, although influenced by essentializing discourses of language endangerment, are largely plurali…
Who can speak Lenape in Pennsylvania? Authentication and language learning in an endangered language community of practice
Taking Down Barcelona in Kathmandu
In June 2012, student activists in Nepal declared a campaign against private, for-profit colleges with foreign names, simultaneously decrying the schools’ names and their exorbitant tuition fees. During the campaign, members of multiple student unions vandalized signboards, buildings, computers, and buses belonging to various colleges and filed a court case demanding stricter management of private schools. These activists claimed control of the l…
Scale-making, power and agency in arbitrating school-level language planning decisions
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal’s government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a situation where inaction maintained the language policy status quo. This ethnography of language policy…
“I Learned That My Name Is Spelled Wrong”
Globally many minority and Indigenous communities are searching for ways to reclaim languages that have been marginalized by socioeconomic and political processes. These efforts often involve novel literacy practices. In this article, we draw from ethnographic data in Mexico and Nepal to ask, what are the opportunities and constraints of teaching writing in support of Indigenous language reclamation? Writing is simultaneously an attraction and a …
Linguistics (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)