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Dr. Benjamin Bailey

Associate Professor

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Benjamin Bailey Office: 307A Machmer Hall
Phone: (413) 545-2522
Email: bbailey@comm.umass.edu
   

Communication, social interaction, and culture; discourse analysis; communication of ethnic/racial identities; inter-ethnic/inter-cultural communication.

Education

Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1999
M.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1996
B.A., Brown University, 1987

Background

Author of Language, Race, and Negotiation of Identity: A Study of Dominican Americans (2002, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing) and various articles and chapters on intercultural communication, code switching, Dominican immigrant identities, and negotiation of ethnic and racial identities in face-to-face interaction (see CV). Current research focuses on capturing and representing pragmatic meanings in practically-oriented translation. Read more about Dr. Benjamin Bailey...

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Books

Bailey, Benjamin. 2002. Language, Race, and Negotiation of Identity: A Study of Dominican Americans. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Journal Articles

Bailey, Benjamin. 2007. “Shifting Identities in a Dominican American Community.” Latino Studies 5.2: 157-181.

Garcia Coll, Cynthia, Dais Akiba, Natalia Palacios, Benjamin Bailey & Cynthia Chin. 2002. “Parental Involvement in Children’s Education: Lessons from Three Immigrant Groups.” Parenting: Science and Practice 2.3: 303-324.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2001. “Dominican American Ethnic/Racial Identities and United States Social Categories.” International Migration Review 35.2: 677-708.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2000. “Communicative Behavior and Conflict between African-American Customers and Immigrant Korean Retailers in Los Angeles.” Discourse and Society 11.1: 86-108.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2000. “Language and Negotiation of Ethnic/Racial Identity among Dominican Americans.” Language in Society 29: 555-582.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2000. “The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 10:2:190-223. [Reprinted 2005 in modified form, In Scott Kiesling & Christina Bratt Paulston (eds.) Intercultural Discourse and Communication. pp. 255-276. New York: Blackwell.]

Bailey, Benjamin. 2000d. “Social and Interactional Functions of Code Switching among Dominican Americans.” Ipra Pragmatics 10.2 :165-193.

Bailey, Benjamin. 1997. “Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters.” Language in Society 26.3: 327-356. [Reprinted 2000, In Alessandro Duranti (ed.) Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. pp.119-146. New York: Blackwell Publishers.]

Book Chapters

Bailey, Benjamin. 2007. Heteroglossia and Hybridity. In Monica Heller (ed.), Bilingualism: Social and Political Approaches. pp. 257-274. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Bailey, Benjamin.2007. Language Alternation as a Resource for Identity Negotiations. In Peter Auer and Werner Kallmeyer (eds.), Social Identity and Communicative Styles -An Alternative Approach to Variability in Language. pp. 29-56. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2007. Multilingual Forms of Talk and Identity Work. In Peter Auer and Li Wei (eds.), Multilingualism. pp. 341-370. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2005. Black and Latino: Dominican Americans Negotiate Racial Worlds. In David Brunsma (ed.), Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era. pp. 481-507. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Bailey, Benjamin. 2004. Misunderstanding. In Alessandro Duranti (ed.), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. pp. 395-413. New York: Blackwell.

Curriculum Vita

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