Introduction: Special issue celebrating the life and work of Larry E. Smith

This brief introduction provides a short biography of Professor Larry Eugene Smith, who passed away in December 2014. The introduction also discusses the contents of this special issue, which pays tribute to the life and work of Professor Smith. All of the sixteen substantive articles have been contributed by Larry’s friends and colleagues from the US as well as from many other societies worldwide. Larry’s personal and professional reach was truly international in scope, as this collection of articles bears direct witness.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146462/1/weng12325_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146462/2/weng12325.pd

Brexit and the future of English in Europe

In this issue of the journal we present a forum on a current topic of key sociolinguistic interest to both linguists and the wider population in Europe and elsewhere, that is, the expected future of the English language in a reconfigured Europe after the impending British exit (or ‘Brexit’) from Europe. The key document discussed in this forum is a position paper from Marko Modiano, which has drawn a number of responses from leading linguists across the field of world Englishes. We are sincerely thankful to Modiano for initiating this forum, and grateful also to all those that have contributed their responses to his article, which has resulted, we believe, in an insightful and lively discussion of the sociolinguistics of English and multilingualism in contemporary Europe.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139103/1/weng12263.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139103/2/weng12263_am.pd

La sociología del comportamiento demográfico

Incluye BibliografíaTraducción de: The sociology of demographic behavior, publicado en Sociology Today; problems and prospect

Introduction: Special issue on the life and work of Braj B. Kachru

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Braj B. Kachru’s scholarly publications: A bibliography

Although best known for his work on world Englishes, Braj Kachru was a truly original thinker, whose academic writings included influential publications on English linguistics, Indian languages, but much else besides, including applied linguistics, bilingualism and multilingualism, code‐mixing and switching, cross‐cultural communication, language policy, linguistic variation, literary creativity, sociolinguistics, and the politics of language. Braj B. Kachru was a renaissance scholar of immense stature, whose work brought together Indian and English linguistics with the cultural perspectives of both Asia and the West, and inspired scholars worldwide to adopt fresh perspectives on so many language issues.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/150583/1/weng12411_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/150583/2/weng12411.pd

Managerial Perceptions of Privatization: Evidence from a State Department of Transportation

Mid-level managers have largely been ignored in studies of privatization’s stakeholders, despite their significant role in implementing privatization processes. This paper examines seeks to remedy that gap by examining managerial perceptions of privatization within a state department of transportation. Based on various theories of bureaucratic behavior, we hypothesize that professional identity will correlate with negative privatization perceptions and that stronger contractor-manager relationships and beliefs about privatization’s professional benefits will correlate with favorable perceptions. These hypotheses are tested with mail survey data from mid-level agency managers. Statistical modeling indicates that relationship quality is positively correlated with privatization perceptions; professional identity, when measured as a preference for technical work, is negatively correlated with privatization perceptions; and beliefs in privatization’s benefits do not correlate with privatization perceptions.Georgia Department of Transportatio