Elise DuBord
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elise DuBord is involved.
Articles
2010 Conflicting discourses of rapport and co-membership: Multilingual gatekeeping encounters at a day labor center in Southern Arizona Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 187–209 | Article
Immigrant workers seeking employment through informal day labor networks must continually reinvent themselves in rapid-fire job interviews with potential employers. In these gatekeeping encounters, employers and workers use various techniques to construct rapport and co-membership. Drawing on… read more
2010 Language policy and the drawing of social boundaries: Public and private schools in territorial Tucson
Ideologías lingüísticas y el español en contexto histórico
, Valle, José del and Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux (eds.), pp. 25–45 | ArticleEducational institutions developed in Tucson, Arizona in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, during a critical time in cultural and political shifts of power between Anglo and Mexican elites in Southwestern United States. My qualitative analysis reconstructs language policies in the… read more
2007 La mancha del plátano: Language policy and the construction of Puerto Rican national identity in the 1940s Spanish in Context 4:2, pp. 241–262 | Article
The present work seeks to identify sources of the persistent link between the Spanish language and national identity in Puerto Rico. By examining mass media discourse in the 1940s as a turbulent period of language policy conflict between Puerto Rico and the U.S. federal government, I suggest that… read more