Edwin Everhart

Linguistic anthropology, language variation, language standardization, accent discrimination, accessibility, intelligibility, life histories, northern Japan (Touhoku), Western Pennsylvania

I am a linguistic anthropologist primarily interested in studying language standardization (as institution and ideology): how it is imagined and reproduced, along with efforts to resist and dismantle it. In my MA and PhD research (UCLA, 2013 and 2018) I worked on language standardization and local language in Touhoku (northern Japan). In other research I have studied the politics of bilingual education, and, English proficiency testing systems in US universities. I have primarily used language ideological and linguistic life history frames of analysis.