This reader collects in one volume the key readings on language, ethnicity and race. Using linguistic and cultural analysis, it explores changing ideas of race and the ways in which these ideas shape human communication.

This reader collects in one volume the key readings on language, ethnicity and race. Harris and Rampton introduce students to the current debates surrounding issues of language and diversity, colonialism and migration, identity and appropriation. Invaluable editorial material guides the student through different sections of the book, which look at how language is used in different ethnic groups and how such uses are discussed and reported. Using linguistic and cultural analysis, the Reader explores changing ideas of ethnicity and race around the world, and the ways in which these ideas shape human communication.

Contents: General Introduction. Part I: Colonialism, Imperialism and Global Process 1. Otto Jespersen (1922) The Origin of Speech 2. Edward Sapir (1921) Language, Race and Culture 3. Bill Ashcroft (2001) Language and Race 4. Mervyn Alleyne (1989): Language 5. Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1986) The Language of African Literature 6. Alamin Mazrui (1997) The World Bank, the Language Question and the Future of African Education 7. Randolph Quirk (1990) Language Varieties and Standard Language 8. Ben Rampton (1990) Displacing the Native Speaker: Expertise, Affiliation and Inheritance Part II: Nation-states and Minorities 9. Joshua Fishman (1972) The Impact of Nationalism on Language Planning 10. Michael Billig (1995) Banal Nationalism 11. Ray Honeyford (1988) The Language Issue 12. John Rickford
(1997) Suite for Ebony and Phonics 13. Wendy Bockhorst-Heng (1998) Singapore's 'Speak Mandarin' Campaign: Language Ideological Debates and the Imagining of a Nation 14.
Roger Hewitt (1992) Language, Youth and the Destabilization of Ethnicity 15. Jane Hill (1995) Junk Spanish, Covert Racism, and the (leaky) Boundary between Public and Private Spheres 16. Jacqueline Urla (1995) Outlaw Language: Creating Alternative Public Spheres in Basque free radio 17. Monica Heller (1999) Alternative Ideologies of la francophonie Part III: Language, Discourse and Ethnic Style
18. Benjamin Lee Whorf (c. 1936) An American Indian Model of the Universe 19. Susan U. Philips (1972) Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 20. John Gumperz (1979) Cross-Cultural Communication 21. Ray McDermott &
Kenneth Gospodinoff (1979) Social Contexts for Ethnic Borders and School Failure 22. John Gumperz &
Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez (1972) Bilingual Codeswitching 23. John T. Clark (2003) Abstract Inquiry and the Patrolling of Black/White Borders through Linguistic Stylisation 24. Cecilia Cutler (1999) Yorkville Crossing: White Teens, Hip Hop and African American English 25. Les Back (1995) X Amount of Sat Siri Akal!: Apache Indian, Reggae Music and Intermezzo Culture. Index