Office Location: 320 Allen Building
Email Address: dmb50@duke.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2012
Wednesdays 3-4:00pm
or by appointment

Education:

PhD, Harvard University

Specialties:

Linguistics

My work to date has focused on the relationship between language ideologies and the construction of social identities through linguistic practice. My PhD dissertation examined the intersection of language, ethnicity, gender and social class in the context of an educational institution in Taiwan. Most recently, I have become interested in the role of language in the shaping of immigrant identities in the United States and other English-dominant countries.

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications

1. "'Taiwanese don't have written words': Language ideologies and language practice in a Taipei country high school." Proceedings from the 2004 International Conference on Taiwanese Romanization. National Museum of Taiwanese Literature and National Cheng-kung University, (October, 2004)
2. "Negotiating Complex Identities: Language Choice, Code-switching, and Identity in Taiwan." Language and Identity: the Selected Papers of the International Conference Ed. Ashley, Leonard R.N. and Finke, Wayne H. Cummings and Hathaway Publishers, (2002): 63-75.  Sponsored by the American Society of Geolinguistics
3. "The Role of Russian Function Words in Urban Colloquial Uzbek." Proceedings from the 2000 Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (SALSA) 44.1 (2000): 18-32.