Languages of Wider Communication
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Janina Brutt-Griffler is Associate Professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction at SUNY, Buffalo. Prior to joining the department she taught on the graduate faculty at the University of York, England. Her areas of specialization are English in a global context, sociolinguitics, second language acquisition, and authorship among bilingual writers. Her MLA prize winning World English: a study of its development complicates the simple narrative of language spread as a function of Western cultural hegemony. Her publications also include Bilingualism and language pedagogy (co-edited) and English and ethnicity (co-edited). She serves on the Distinguished Service and Scholarship Committee of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the Executive Committee for General Linguistics Group of the Modern Language Association of America. Her current work focuses on language and globalization.