Scientific Articles

2013a

“A Question of Faith: An Investigation of Suggested Racial Ethnonyms for Enumerating U.S. American Residents of Muslim, Middle Eastern, and/or Arab Descent on the U.S. Census.” In: NAMES: The Journal of Onomastics. (2013). 61.1: 8-20.

2012a

"Names and the Internet: Editorial".In: TheJournal of Onomastics: Special Issue. 60.4.

2011a

 “May Pretend to be Free: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation of Surnames Adopted by Fugitive Slaves Advertised in Colonial American Newspapers Between 1729-1818.” In: NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics.(2011) 59.4: 191-203.

2011b

“Checking All That Apply: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of US American Residents with Mixed Anglo Latino Parentage” inI. Laversuch and R. Einmahl (Eds.), Multiple Language Variation and Use. Aachen: Shaker Verlag. 157-176.

2011c 

“Thorns and Rose:A Sociolinguistic Examination of Academic Achievement Among Turkish German University Students”In:Multiple Language, Variation, and Use. Aachen: Shaker Verlag. 63-85.

2010a

“Margarete and Sulamith Under the Swastika: Girls’ Names in Nazi German” In: NAMES: The Journal of Onomastics. 58.4: 219-230.

2010b

“Guest Editorial: Naming and War”. In:NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics. 58.4: 188-190.

2010c 

Names and War: NAMES: The Journal of Onomastics(Special Issue). IssueEditor,I. M. Laversuch. Series Editor. Frank NuesselNAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics. 58.4.

2008a

“An Unequal Balance of Power: The Seychelles’ Trilingual Language Policy” In: Current Issues in Language Planning. 9: 375-394.

2008b

“Putting Germany’s Language Tests to the Test: An Examination of the Development, Implementation, and Efficacy of Using Language Proficiency Tests to Mediate German Citizenship” In: Current Issues in Language Planning . 9: 282-298.

2008c

“Multilingualism Down Under: The Use and Dis-use of Non-English Heritage Languages Among Mixed-Bilingual Parentage University Students in Australia” In: J. Burton and A. Burne (Eds.). Language Teacher Research in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 101-117). Crofton, MD: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (ISBN: 978-193-118-5479)

2007a

"The Politics of Naming Race and Ethnicity: Language Planning and Policies Regulating the Selection of Racial Ethnonyms Used by the US Census 1990-2010.” In: Current Issues in Language Planning . 8: 365-382.

2007b

“Runaway Slave Names Recaptured: An Investigation of the Personal First Names of Fugitive Slaves Advertised in the Virginia Gazette Between 1736 and 1776”. In:NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics.. 54: 331-362.

2007c

“The Generation of New Word-Blends for a New Generation of Blended Americans.” In: C. Todenhagen and W. Thiele (Eds.). Nominalization, Nomination, and Naming. (pp. 61-82). Tübingen: Stauffenberg Linguistik. (ISBN: 978-3-86057-172-9).

2006a

“Living in the Wake of the German Diaspora: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of 25 Adults with Bicultural Bilingual German Parentage”. In: Waterloo Center for German Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada. (Summer 2006 Conference Papers on C.D.)

2006b

“Five Popular Myths about Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Language.” In Rosa: Die Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung: Sprache. 21-23.

2006c 

“The Role of Personal an Environmental Attitudes in the Intergenerational Transmission of Heritage Languages: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of 100 Adults with Bicultural Bilingual Parentage in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States”.In: A. Casaretto and S. Kutscher (Eds.) Sprachkontakt: Synchron und Diachron. (pp. 221-242). Aachen: Shaker Verlag. (ISBN: 978-3-8322-7428-3).

2004 

“Pathways to Multilingualism Among African American Slaves in 18th and 19thCentury Colonial America” In: National Association of African American Studies Monograph Series. 908-924.

Book Reviews and Notices

2013a

Rev. ofFamiliennamen im Deurtschen: Familiennamen aus fremden Sprachen im Deutschen Sprachraum. By K. Hengst and D. Krüger (Eds.). (2011).  Leipzig. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. In: NAMES: The Journal of Onomastics. (2013). 61.3 (accepted and pending)

2013b

Rev. of Surnames, DNA, and Family History.  By G. Remmonds, T. King, and D. Hey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2011). In: NAMES: The Journal of Onomastics. (2011). (acccepted  and pending)

2013c

Rev. of Teaching and Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning. By K. Beatty. London: Longman-Pearson (2010). In: The European English Messenger of the European Society for the Study of English. 21.2: 66-68.

2012a

Rev. of Language and Social Change in Central Europe: Discourse on Policy, Identity and the German language. By P. Stevenson and J. Carl. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (2010). In: eLanguage: The Online Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. [http://elanguage.net]

2012b

Rev. of Talk as Therapy: Psychotherapy in a Linguistic Perspective. By J. Pawelczyk. (Trends in Applied Linguistics, 7). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton , (2011). In:eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net]

2012c

Rev. of Studies on German-Language Islands. By M. Putnam. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 123). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2011). In: eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net]

2012d

Rev. of Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms. By C. Dalton-Puffer, T. Nikula, and Ute Smit (Eds.). (AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 7). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2010). In: eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net]

2012e

Rev. of Linguistic Analysis: From Data to Theory. By A. Puglielli, and M. Frascarelli. (Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs, 220). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, (2011). In: eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net]

2012f

Rev. of English in Europe Today. By A. De Hower, and A. Wilton. (AILA Applied Linguistics, 8). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2010). In: e Language:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net]

2012g

Rev. of Doing Justice to Court Interpreting. By M. Shlesinger and F. Pöchhacker (Edds.). (Benajamins Current Topics, 26). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2010). In: eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net]

2012h

Rev. of The Grammar of Names. By J. Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2008). In:NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics. 60.4: 244-245.

2012i

Rev. of Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science. By C. KaesukYoon. New York: W.W. Norton, (2009). In:NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics. 60.2:118-119.

2012j

Rev. of Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names. By R.. Catlingand F. Marchand. (Eds.) Oxford: Oxbow Books, (2010). In:NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics. 60.2:117-118.

2012k

Rev. of Analysing Police Interviews: Laughter, Confesions, and the Tape. By E. Carter. London: Continuum, (2011). In:eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net].

2012l

Rev. of Teachers of English Learners Negotiating Authoritarian Policies. By L.Pease-Alvarez and K. Davies Samway (Eds.). London: Springer. (2012). In:eLanguage:The OnlineJournal of the Linguistic Society of America.[http://elanguage.net].

2012m

Rev. of Surnames, DNA, and Family History. By G. Redmonds, T. King, and D. Hey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011). In: NAMES: American Journal of Onomastics. (accepted for publication and in-press)

2012n

Rev. of Teaching and Researching: Computer-Assisted Language Learning. (2^nd edition). By K. Beatty. (Applied Linguistics in Action Series). New York: Pearson, (2010). In: European English Messenger. [The European Society for the Study of English] (accepted for publication and in-press)

2012o

Rev. of Teaching and Researching: Motivation. (2^nd edition). By Z. Dörnyei and E. Ushioda. New York: Pearson, (2011). In: The European English Messenger. [The European Society for the Study of English] (accepted for publication and in-press)

2012p

Rev. of European Parliaments Under Scrutiny. By C. Ilie (Ed.). Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC), 38. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2010). In: The European English Messenger. [The European Society for the Study of English] (accepted for publication and in-press)

2010

Rev. of Namengebung in Ostfriesland. By M..Tammena. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, (2009). In: NAMES: TheJournal of Onomastics. 58.4 : 246-248.

2006a

Rev. of Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language, Crime and the Law By J. Olsson. New York. Continuum Press, (2004). In Language Policy, 6.3-4: 403-405.

2006b

Rev. of Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate (2^nd edition). By J. Ramirez, et al. (Eds).  Clevendon: Multilingual Matters, (2005). In: Language Policy, 5: 483-487

2006c

Rev. of War of Words By S. Silberstein. London: Routledge, (2004). In Language Policy. 5.2: 233-236.

2006d

Rev. of Black British Writing. By R. Victoria and L. Ramsey (Eds.). New York: Palgrave McMillan Press, (2004). In: Variations: The Literary Journal of the University of Zuerich. 

2005

Rev. of Bilingual Couples Talk: The Discourse Construction of Hybridity. By I.Piller. (Studies in Bilingualism)Amsterdam: John Benjamins,(2002). In: Language Policy. 80.4: 220-222.

2004a

Rev. of Language, Discourse, and Power in African American Culture. By M. Morgan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2002). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. 80.4: 898.

2004b

Rev. of Dialect and Dichotomy: The Literary Representations of African American Speech. By L. Minnick. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, (2004). In: Variations: The Literary Journal of the University of Zuerich.

2003a

Rev. of Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects. By S. Kwan and K. Spears (Eds.) Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, (2003). In: Variations: The Literary Journal of the University of Zuerich.

2003b

Rev. of Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on their Craft. By S. Kellman, (Ed.) Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. (2003). In: Variations: The Literary Journal of the University of Zuerich.

2001a

Rev. of English: One Language, Different Cultures. By E. Ronowicz and C. Yallop, (Eds.). New York: Cassell, (1999). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. September 77.3: 620.

2001b

Rev. of Languages in America: A Pluralist View. By S. Dicker. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, (2006). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. 77-4:847-848.

2001c

Rev. of Onomasiological Theory of English Formation. By P. Stekauer.Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (1998). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. September 77.3: 619.

2001d

Rev. of Language, Society and Power. By L. Thomas and S. Wareing. London and New York: Routledge, (1999). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. September 77.3: 618-619.

2001e

Rev. of Translation and Interpreting in the 20th Century. By W. Wilss. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (1999). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. March 77.1: 172.

2001f

Rev. Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap. By N. Bernstein Ratner and C. Healey (Eds.). Mahwah, New Jersey: Taylor and Francis, (1999). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. June 11.2: 393.

2001g

Rev. of Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora By D. Andrews. Amsterdam: John Benjamin, (1999). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America.June 77.2: 393.

2000

Rev. of Making the Connection: Language and Academic Achievement Among African American Students. By C. Temple Adger, D. Christian, and O. Taylor, (Eds.) Washington D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, (1999). In: Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. June 77.4: 849.

Popular Press Articles Parents and Families

2010a

“Deaf Bilingualism: Crossing Languages and Bridging Cultures”

in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter. 27.2:4-5, 8.

2010b

“From Foreigner to Native: Tales of Travelling Abroad with Children. ” in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter. 23.2.6-8.

2010c

Our Precious Harvest: Cultivating Linguistic Diversity at Home and at School”

Multilingual Matters: Bilingual Family Newsletter 27.1: 1-2

2010d

The Long Way Home: Homesickness in Bicultural Bilingual Families: Part One” Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter. 25.4: 4-5.

2010e

“The Long Way Home: Homesickness in Bicultural Bilingual Families: Part Two” Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter. 25.3: 4, 7.

2010f

“Naming Children in Bilingual and Bicultural Families”. Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter. 27.3: 1-3, 7-8.

2006

“Bilingualism and Severe Educational Needs” in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 23.1 4-5.

2005a

“When the Unthinkable Happens: Bilingualism and Aphasia”: in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 23.4: 4-5, 8.

2005b

“Bilingualism and Developmental Disorders.” in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter of Multilingual Matters 24.2:4-5.

2005c

“Bilingualism and Severe Educational Needs” in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 23.1: 4-5, 8.

2005d

“Diverse Forms of Diversity: Deaf Bilingualism” Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 22.1:6-7.

2005e

“The Language(s) of Love: expressions of Emotion in Intercultural Relationships”.

Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 22.3: 1-3.

2004a

“Travelin’ and Testifyin’: A Bilingual Bondswoman’s Journey to Freedom” Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 21.2: 1-2.

2004b

“International Adoption and Bilingualism” Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 21.3: 6-7.

2004c

“Speaking the Enemy’s Language: Bilingual Children and Divorce” Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 21.4: 2-4.

2004d

“Stuttering and Bilingualism.” in Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Family Newsletter 23.2.6-8.