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Linguistic anthropology of education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

Begoña Echeverria
Begoña Echeverria
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA 92521, b.echeverria@ucr.edu
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Stanton Wortham & Betsy Rymes (eds.), Linguistic anthropology of education. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 288. Hb $69.95.

In his introduction to this volume, Stanton Wortham argues for the value of a linguistic anthropological approach to education. After all, “a society's beliefs about language – as a symbol of nationalism, a marker of differences, or a tool of assimilation – are often reproduced and challenged through educational institutions” (p. 2). So too is language used in schools in ways that, often unwittingly, reproduce the inequities in society more generally; a linguistic anthropological approach is particularly well suited to pointing out the processes by which this happens.

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BOOK REVIEW
Information
Language in Society , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 617 - 619
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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