Weaver (2014a; 2014b), among other researchers, states that ethnicity is a common topic in humour research. Davies (1998) mentions most ethnic minorities become the butt of ethnicity-centred jokes. In Romanian context, humorous discourses target Hungarians and Gypsies (Popescu 2011). Jokes are, usually, told from perspective Romanians as central group, while butts (i.e., minorities) represent p...

Discourses surrounding migration and integration often see language, in particular the knowledge of native as a crucial barrier to minorities’ access healthcare welfare benefits, equal treatment, social integration, psychological wellbeing. Using methods ethnographic interactional sociolinguistic conversational analysis our project investigates how professionals Greenlandic patients define, int...

The articles in this issue explore a wide range of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues. Dr. Peggy Chinn discusses the stigma of being lesbian or gay in the nursing profession (and academia) and she challenges lesbian and gay nurses to act against the status quo. Dr. Joanne Hall explores the meanings of tomboyism from linguistic, literary, and historical perspectives. Dr. Danny...

in 2010, the ministry of education of one of the most diverse provinces in canada initiated the implementation of a support program for newcomer students to facilitate their academic, linguistic, social, and cultural adaptation in french speaking schools. this longitudinal multiple case study will document how immigrant parents support their children’s learning, and create a home environment co...

Personal proper names are part of a community’s language inventory. To large extent, they verbalise gender stereotypes, expectations and norms, power relations, political circumstances, how minorities treated. In my paper I analyse the current socio-onomastic representation gender-neutral in context naming practices Czech Republic. More specifically, examine what factors might explain de...