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Privilege and Stigma

Friday, July 18, 2014: 3:30 PM-5:20 PM
Room: Booth 62
RC25 Language and Society (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizer:
Thomas HOREJES, Gallaudet University, USA
Chair:
Rie TAKAMATSU, Osaka University, Japan
Saying 'I' - Gender, Identity and Social Status In Japanese Pronouns (Oral Presentation)
SPF DALE, Sophia University, Japan

Academic Language Barriers: Professional Stigma or Recognition and Success? (Oral Presentation)
Laura GARCIA LANDA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Maintaining Identities of Distinction in Taiwan through the Foregrounding of Linguistic Abilities (Oral Presentation)
Mark Fifer SEILHAMER, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Evolution of Language-in-Education Policy in South Africa (Oral Presentation)
Phakisho Michael MOKHAHLANE, North West Univeristy, South Africa, South Africa

Performing Cool Japan and Uncool Hybridity: Analysing 'luugo' (Lou Language) (Oral Presentation)
Rika YAMASHITA, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Agism and Language in Old-Age Inequality (Distributed Paper)
Corinne KIRCHNER, Columbia University, USA

The Stigmatizing Semantics of Methadone Maintenance Treatment (Distributed Paper)
Frida PETERSSON, University of Gothenburg, Sweden