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A linguistic anthropologist looks at English as a lingua franca
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Susan Gal
Susan Gal is Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago in Anthropology and Linguistics. She is the author ofLanguage Shift (1979) and co-author ofThe Politics of Gender after Socialism (2000). As co-editor ofLanguages and Publics: The Making of Authority (2001), and in numerous articles, she has written about the political economy of language, the semiotics of sociocultural differentiation, and the circulation of discourses. Her continuing ethnographic work in Eastern Europe explores the relationship between linguistic practices, semiotic processes, and the construction of social life.
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March 15, 2013
Published Online: 2013-3-15
Published in Print: 2013-3-14
© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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