Janet M. Fuller

List of John Benjamins publications for which Janet M. Fuller plays a role.

This chapter examines variation in the situated meanings of the term Biodeutsche(r), a term which has emerged relatively recently as a way to refer to people who are German by descent (i.e., not of migration background). This analysis shows that use of this term reflects competing discourses… read more
Fuller, Janet M. 2019 Chapter 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper commentsMigration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. 317–338 | Chapter
This chapter employs a critical, constructivist theoretical perspective to address how online commenters on articles in the liberal newspaper Die Zeit characterize immigrants, integration, and German identity. While the formerly dominant ethnonational ideology about German identity is now in the… read more
Fuller, Janet M., Janelle Briggs and Laurel Dillon-Sumner 2013 Men eat for muscle, women eat for weight loss: Discourses about food and gender in Men’s Health and Women’s Health magazinesCulinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 261–280 | Article
This chapter examines discourses about food in Women’s Health and Men’s Health magazines, and finds gendered ideologies about foodways. While the concept of “good food” is prevalent in both magazines, what is “good” depends on the gender of the target audience. Both magazines advocate controlled… read more
Fuller, Janet M., Minta Elsman and Kevan Self 2007 8. Addressing peers in a Spanish-English bilingual classroomSpanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, Potowski, Kim and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 135–151 | Article
This paper employs data from elementary school children in a bilingual classroom to examine the applicability of two models for bilingual speech: the Markedness Model (Myers-Scotton 1993; Myers-Scotton & Bolonyai 2001) and Sequential Approach (Auer 1988, 1995; Li Wei 1988). The majority of the… read more
Montgomery, Michael and Janet M. Fuller 1996 What was verbal — s in 19th-century African American English?Focus on the USA, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 211–230 | Article