This month, NYU Shanghai welcomes guests who will explore issues in Language & Identity, including a film screening of Talking Black in America on February 22nd, and a panel discussion on February 27th that investigates the relationship between language and our collective and personal identities. Are you intrigued by these topics or looking for more reading, including fiction and memoir? Check out these books from NYU:
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| Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Check it out! | Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee Check it out! | Typical American Gish Jen Check it out! | Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language Eva Hoffmann Check it out! |
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| French Lessons: A Memoir Alice Yaeger Kaplan Available as an ebook | Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez Request it! | How the García girls lost their accents Julia Alvarez Request it! | When I was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago Request it! |
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| Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History Kingsley Bolton Request it! | Dialects at School: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students Jeffrey Reaser, Carolyn Temple Adger, Walt Wolfram, Donna Christian Available as an ebook | China and English Globalisation and the Dilemmas of Identity Joseph Lo Bianco, Jane Orton, Gao Yihong Available as an ebook | |
Don’t forget about our scholarly journals! Keep up with recent research trends in journals like these:
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World Englishes, ISSN: 0883-2919
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Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, ISSN:1534-8458
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Journal of English as an International Language, ISSN: 2200-2014
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, ISSN: 1360-6441