Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language, culture and identity: framing the issues / David Nunan & J ulie Choi -- Coat hangers, cowboys, and communication strategies: seeki ng an identity as a proficient foreign language learner Kathleen Bailey -- Speaking Roman-esque / David Block -- Zzèycollaborating on communit y, sharing experience, troubling the symbolic / Michael Brennan -- Achi eving community / Suresh Canagarajah -- Socio-pragmatics and cross-cult ural encounters: what you need to know before you say 'hello' / Mark Ch erry -- Nonghao, I am a Shanhai Noenoe: how do I claim my Shanghainesen ess? / Alice Chik -- Living on the hyphen / Julie Choi -- Negotiating m ultiple language identities / Mary Ann Christison -- Minna no Nihongo? nai! / Martha Clark Cummings -- Elaborating the monolingual deficit / J ulian Edge -- The foreign-ness of native speaking teachers of colour / Javier Eljee -- Otra estacion, a first Spanish lesson / Rod Ellis -- Be witched: a microethnography of the culture of magick in Old Salem / Bud Goodall -- Am I that name? / Stacy Holman-Jones -- English and me: my language learning journey / Angel Lin -- Adaptive cultural transformati on: quest for dual social identities / Jun Liu -- On this writing: an a utotheoretic account / Allen Luke -- Changing cultures and identities i n bicultural names: from parents to children / Steve Marshall and Tim M ossman -- First of all, let me tell you a story / Michael McCarthy -- B erlin Babylon / Stephen Muecke -- Changing stripesÅchameleon or tiger? / Denise Murray -- vanishing acts / Cynthia D. Nelson -- Dog rice and c ultural dissonance / David Nunan -- Where am I from?: performative and metro perspectives of origin / Emi Otsuji -- Sweating cheese and thinki ng otherwise / Alastair Pennycook -- Multilingual couple talk / Kimie T akahashi -- Transforming identities in and through narrative / Sumiko T aniguchi.