Janet M. Fuller Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women’s Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

• Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Bilingual discourse, identities and ideologies 2. Normative monolingualism in the USA: immigrant bilingualism and the stigmatization of Spanish 3. Amigos amid Americanos: a linguistic ethnography of a Spanish-English transitional bilingual education classroom 4. Language ideologies in Berlin, Germany: normative monolingualism and elite bilingualism 5. Speaking your mother tongue in the fatherland: a linguistic ethnography of a German-English dual language classroom 6. Conclusion

"Fuller’s book shows how a single practice—code switching among elementary school children in school—can assume different forms and have dramatically different meanings in two different historical and ideological contexts. Her analysis of elite bilingualism in a German school—and its comparison to a US Latino site--will help US scholars of bilingualism to see the historical and political particularity of the bilingual situations most studied in the US, that of the immigrant second generation." – Benjamin Bailey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"Due to its clear focus, this book caters to an audience interested in sociolinguistics, language and identity, discourse analysis, bilingual education, and linguistic ethnography. It would also be helpful for students seeking an understanding of sociolinguistic research methodologies." - Haomin Zhang, LINGUIST List