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• WP143 Literacy practices, linguistic anthropology and social inequality

  Collins

  2014

  Covering classroom reading, Ebonics, multilingual shop signs, No Child Left Behind and the state, Collins argues that to understand literacy or language policy as a social practice, we have to examine how policy operates as multiple levels, from …

  Key words: linguistic anthropology, literacy, social inequity

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• WP47 Migration & multilingualism: Implications for linguistic anthropology and education research

  Collins

  2007

  Large-scale migration has numerous consequences for both migrants and host societies. These have sociopolitical, cultural and linguistic dimensions, and can be phrased as the challenge of grappling, theoretically and practically, with volatile …

  Key words: linguistic anthropology, multilingualism

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