Publications

Publication details [#51513]

Verdi, Gail Grace and Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth. 2009. Working-class women academics: four socio-linguistic journeys. Journal of multicultural discourses 4 (2) : 183–204.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | language and culture | language status | social status | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper describes how four female working-class academics cope with the linguistic and cultural challenges caused by the confrontation of their marginalized dialects with universities' dominant discourse(s) and culture(s).