The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader

357 pages. Language, Race and Ethnicity: A Reader an essential resource for all students of sociolinguistics, ethnic studies, linguistics, anthropology and intercultura l studies. This accessible Reader collects in one volume the key readings on lan guage, ethnicity and race. Roxy Harris and Ben Rampton introduce students to the current debates surrounding issues of language and diversity, colonialism and m igration, identity and appropriation. Invaluable editorial material guides the s tudent through different sections of the book, which look at how language is use d in different ethnic groups and how such uses are discussed and reported. Using linguistic and cultural analysis, the Reader explores changing ideas of ethnici ty and race around the world, and the ways in which these ideas shape human comm unication.