Workable Accents - How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor

Explores how international teaching assistants in Canadian universities craft accents that work toward communicative goals, conforming to and contesting expectations of academic labor.

About the author

Vijay A. Ramjattan is a teaching-stream assistant professor in language and literacies education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Vijay A Ramjattan, Vijay A. Ramjattan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9781666958331
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-5833-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Canada, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Sociolinguistics, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher