Research Interests for Dominika M Baran

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.

Keywords:

discourse analysis, narrative, Discourse Analysis, Narrative, Identity, language and identity, language and migration, language ideologies, linguistic analysis (linguistics), Linguistic Analysis (linguistics), linguistic anthropology, mandarin dialects, Mandarin Dialects, Multilingualism, multilingualism , sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, united states--emigration and immigration--history, United States--emigration and Immigration--history

Current projects:

Book project: Language in Immigrant America, to be published by Cambridge University Press

Recent Publications

1. N/A, , Anti-genderism in Global Nationalist Movements, edited by Tebaldi, C; Baran, D, Gender and Language no. Special issue (2023), Equinox Publishing
2. Baran, D, Defending Christianity from the “rainbow plague”: Historicized narratives of nationhood in rightwing antigenderist discourses in Poland, Gender and Language, vol. 17 no. 1 (2023), Equinox Publishing
3. Baran, D, American immigrants and English, in In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes (2023)
4. Baran, D, ‘Rainbow plague’ or ‘rainbow allies’? tęcza ‘rainbow’ as a floating signifier in the contestation of Poland’s national identity, Gender and Language, vol. 16 no. 3 (January, 2022), pp. 286-307 [doi] [abs]
5. Baran, D, Translocal spaces and identities: Negotiating belonging among former refugees in a Facebook group message, edited by Ciepiela, K, Language, Identity and Community (Lodz Studies in Language series) (2019), Peter Lang