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The presence of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign raised new questions about bias and sexism in the media's portrayal of the candidates. The recent commemorative inaugural edition of Newsweek noted that "Clinton's campaign for the presidency showed us how far we've come on women's rights – and how far we haven't come" (109). While Obama and Clinton were vying for the Democratic nomination, the March 17, 2008 Newsweek issue featured a picture of Hillary Clinton and the title "Hear Her Roar: Gender, Class, and Hillary Clinton". Two online media sources at the time asked if "media outlets [were] biased against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton due to her gender" (www.capitolhillblue.com) and if "Hillary Clinton's campaign [was] the victim of sexism" (www.redblueamerica.com). As Talbot (2007) notes in Media Discourse: Representation and Interaction, "[in] modern democracies the media serve a vital function as a public forum" (3). Considering the media's effects on the nation and the public's ideas, it is essential to analyze the language and discourse of the media during critical moments in national histories such as presidential campaigns.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Exploring Agency, Ideology, and Semiotics of Language Across Communities -- Language, Semiotics, and Community -- Creation of the Volume -- Ethos of the Volume -- Reconceptualizing Language and Use -- Metalinguistic Community -- Chapter Themes -- Overarching Themes -- Chapter Descriptions -- Section 1: Language Defining Belonging -- Section 2: Language as a Tool Against Erasure -- Section 3: Language Mediating Relations with the State -- Section 4: Afterword -- Concluding Remarks -- Reflection Questions for the Volume -- References -- Language Defining Belonging -- Contested Hebrew: Metalinguistic Communities and Ethnolinguistic Infusion in U.S. Jewish Complementary Schools -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- Metalinguistic Communities and Ethnolinguistic Infusion -- Research Questions -- Methodology -- Fostering Metalinguistic Communities -- Socialization into Language Ideologies, Language Use is Primarily Pedagogical -- Conflation of Language and Culture -- Use of Code in Specific Interactional Contexts / Ethnolinguistic Infusion -- Hebrew Loanwords / Jewish Life Vocabulary -- Schoolscapes: Hebrew Writing on Whiteboards, Worksheets, and Walls -- Conclusion -- References -- "Anyone Who Speaks Just a Little Bit of Náhuat Knows She's Only Babbling...": Metapragmatic Discourses on Proficiency in the Náhuat Language Revitalization (El Salvador) -- Introduction -- Metapragmatic Typifications of Proficiency -- Colonialism, Metalinguistic Labeling, and Proficiency -- "She's only babbling...": Náhuat revitalization and enregisterment -- Conclusion -- References -- Intimate Politics and Language Revitalization in Veneto, Northern Italy -- Introduction -- Intimacy, Intimate Identities, and Language Affiliation.

"This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language, inequality, and social justice in North America, using the applied linguistic anthropology (ALA) framework"--

"From bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns and immigration discourses, language is a central concern in contemporary conversations and controversies surrounding social inequality. Developed as a collaborative effort by members of the American Anthropological Association's Language and Social Justice Task Force, this innovative volume synthesizes scholarly insights on the relationship between patterns of communication and the creation of more just societies. Using case studies by leading and emergent scholars written especially for undergraduate audiences, the book is ideal for introductory courses on social justice in linguistics and anthropology"--