Jaffer Sheyholislami
Professor
Linguistics and Language Studies
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Jaffer Sheyholislami Associate Professor (Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies); Assistant Director (ALDS) Degrees: PhD (Carleton)
Research Interest
Critical Discourse Analysis Systemic Functional Linguistics Heritage Languages Kurdish language and linguistics Language and media Language and identity Writing in academic settings Language policy and planning
Publications
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2016. “It is the Hardest to Keepâ€: Kurdish as a Heritage Language in the United States. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 237, 75-98. (with Amir Sharifi, California State University, Long Beach)
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2012. Sheyholislami, Jaffer, Hassanpour, Amir, and Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (Eds.) The Kurdish Linguistic Landscape: Vitality, Linguicide and Resistance. Special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, No. 217.
