Table Of ContentExtending Applied Linguistics
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Extending Applied Linguistics
for Social Impact
Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations in
Diverse Spaces of Public Inquiry
Edited by Doris S. Warriner and Elizabeth R. Miller
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction Doris S. Warriner and Elizabeth R. Miller 1
1 Engaging the Public in Sociolinguistics for Social Justice:
Advocating for Pidgin Speakers in Hawaiʻi Christina Higgins 13
2 Building Partnerships and Expanding Repertoires of Practice:
Working with and in Museums To Improve Informal Science
Education for Linguistically Diverse Young Children
Leslie C. Moore 35
3 An Applied Linguist at Work: Tracing Language Choices
in a Social Sustainability Network Elizabeth R. Miller 59
4 Finding Answers within the Story: Th e Transformative
Potential of Translanguaging Praxis Obed Arango
and Holly Link 81
5 Being, Seeing, and Hearing White: When Th eater Arts
Interrogate and Make Visible the Power of the Elephant in
the Room E llen Skilton 103
6 Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Partnerships
for Health Equity Emily M. Feuerherm, Rachel E. Showstack,
Maricel G. Santos, Glenn A. Mart í nez, and Holly E. Jacobson 125
7 “It Depends Case by Case”: Understanding How the Practices
of Cultural Health Navigators Impact Healthcare Access and
Delivery for Refugee-Background Families Katherine E. Morelli
and Doris S. Warriner 149
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8 Applied Linguistic Anthropology: Balancing Social Science with
Social Change Netta Avineri, Eric J. Johnson, Bernard C. Perley,
Jonathan Rosa, and Ana Celia Zentella 171
Aft erword: Crossing Borders, Rethinking Expertise, and
Becoming C ollaborative Linguists B etsy Rymes 195
Index 211
Figures
1.1 Museum exhibit wall for P idgin: How was . . . How Stay! 23
1.2 Museum exhibit panel on Pidgin in the 1920s featuring Better
English Week 24
1.3 Touchscreen computer featuring oral and visual Pidgin at
the exhibit 26
1.4 Pidgin T-shirts on display 26
4.1 Story co-construction based on continual refl ection and action 87
6.1 Intersections of language and health across domains 128
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Tables
3.1 Top fi ve most frequently occurring content words 68
3.2 Raw frequency of words relating to contexts for sustainability 69
3.3 Raw frequency of words relating to sustainability subtopics 70
3.4 Most frequent content-word collocations with su stainability 71
5.1 Snapshot of dimensions of visual/aural/gestural analysis of marked
subject-as-seen/subject-as-heard at start of “Fighting” scene
(adapted from Blackledge and Creese 2017) 121
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Contributors
Obed Arango is a Mexican immigrant, anthropologist, and journalist living in
the US since 2000. He and his two daughters are from Mexico City. Together they
have learned to resist the anti-immigrant environment in the US and have
explored the principles of Paulo Freire and Martin Luther King, Jr. Following
this path and with the spirit of other members of the immigrant community, he
founded Revoluci ó n Arte as a center for social transformation. He is RevArte’s
Director and is also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania in the School
for Social Policy and Practice.
Netta Avineri is Language Teacher Education Associate Professor and
Intercultural Competence Committee Chair at the Middlebury Institute of
International Studies at Monterey. She is the author of R esearch Methods for
Language Teaching: Inquiry, Process, and Synthesis (2017, Palgrave Macmillan)
and co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, Routledge). Her
research focuses on interculturality, critical service-learning, and heritage
language socialization. She is the American Association for Applied Linguistics
Public Aff airs and Engagement Chair, Series Editor for Critical Approaches in
Applied Linguistics (De Gruyter), and former Chair of the American
Anthropological Association Task Force on Language and Social Justice.
Emily M. Feuerherm is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of
English at the University of Michigan – Flint. Her research explores community-
based ESL program development for health with a focus on partnerships, needs
analysis, curriculum, and assessment. Recent publications include “Conducting
a Community-Wide ESOL Programme Needs Analysis” co-authored with Toko
Oshio in the E nglish Language Teaching Journal (2020), and “A Researcher’s
Coming-of-Age Th rough Participatory Action Research” in Bigelow and
Warriner (eds.), Critical Refl ections on Research Methods: Power and Equity in
Complex Multilingual Contexts (2019, De Gruyter).
Christina Higgins is Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at M ā noa in the
Department of Second Language Studies, where she is also co-director of the
Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies. Her research
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