“She’s American Now, I Don’t Like That”: Gendered Language Ideologies in a Laotian American Community

dc.creator	Daryl Gordon
dc.date	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:13:38Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:13:38Z
dc.identifier	2153-8999
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d505486b7ec54ddf9f657e109b53bbaa
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16188
dc.description	As gender identities have shifted within the Laotian American community, perceptions of English proficiency have emerged as a site in which complex ideologies about gender identity are explored and contested. While Laotian women experience expanded opportunities for enacting their gender identities through wage labor and access to education, Laotian men experience a narrowing of opportunities, having lost traditional sources of power such as land ownership and high status professions. Laotian men’s enactment of a discourse of nostalgia and the development of language ideologies, specifically the belief that they are more proficient English speakers than women, play an important part in men’s attempt to mitigate this loss of status. At the heart of these ideologies about language is an assumption that men’s greater proficiency in English allows them to create a seamless transition between their role as family leader and provider in Laos and a similar role within the radically changed gender landscape of the United States.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans
dc.relation	http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/view/65/62
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2153-8999
dc.source	Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, Vol 4 (2009)
dc.subject	Cambodia
dc.subject	Khmer
dc.subject	Asian-American Studies
dc.subject	Cultural Studies
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	“She’s American Now, I Don’t Like That”: Gendered Language Ideologies in a Laotian American Community
dc.type	article