A closer look at cultural difference: 'Interculturality' in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Christina Higgins
Special issue of Pragmatics 17:1 (2007) ca. 125 pp.
Christina Higgins
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christina Higgins plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2010 Raising critical language awareness in Hawai‘i at Da Pidgin Coup Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, Migge, Bettina, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens (eds.), pp. 31–54 | Article
This chapter describes the efforts of Da Pidgin Coup, an advocacy group in Hawai‘i that strives to raise critical language awareness about Pidgin (Hawai‘i Creole). Several examples of advocacy for elevating the status of Pidgin in Hawai‘i are described, including the development of an undergraduate… read more
2007 Constructing membership in the in-group: Affiliation and resistance among urban Tanzanians A closer look at cultural difference: 'Interculturality' in talk-in-interaction, Higgins, Christina (ed.), pp. 49–70 | Article
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists co-construct their identities as members of the same culture by producing talk that aligns them with several shared membership categories (Sacks 1972, 1979, 1992). The speakers propose and subsequently reaffirm, resist, or transform the… read more