I present two U.S. court cases in which I participated as a linguistic anthropological "expert" to show how language ideologies of the law both influence legal outcomes and conflict with "scientific" ideas about language. One case was the murder trial of a young Mixtec-speaking Indian from Oaxaca; the other was a civil suit brought by four Hispanic women dismissed from an elder-care center for ...

The 20th century saw the Soviet and Francoist regimes enforce their respective ideologies in Estonia and the Catalan-speaking territories in Spain. In both cases, the autochthonous language suffered under the stringent control of the mechanisms of censorship and repression. In fact, Soviet and Spanish leaders—representing both extremes of the political spectrum—tried to replace the use of the a...

Universities represent spaces where language ideologies are taken up, modified, and transformed. The monolingual orientation of most universities contributes to the (re)construction inequalities between students perceived as “native speakers” others labelled “non-natives”. Therefore, can be a challenge for linguistically minoritized if their multilingual practices not accepted legitimate. Linki...

This article reports preliminary survey and interview data from a 3-year study regarding language ideologies related to deaf interpreters (DIs). DIs are professional sign who may work as part of team with hearing interpreters. Survey provide snapshot current DI demographics reflect that most Canadian-born grandparent generation. suggests precarious national ecosystem currently exists in Canada....

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