Dominika M Baran

Journal Article Gender and Language · January 1, 2022 The anti-genderism register, which demonises the LGBTQ+ community as promoters of so-called ‘gender ideology’, has spread in recent decades across right wing populist discourses around the world. In Poland, it is an important resource in right wing constru ... Full text Open Access Cite

“Rainbow plague” or “rainbow allies”? TĘCZA “rainbow” as a floating signifier in the contestation of Poland’s national identity.

Journal Article Gender and Language · 2022 Cite

Immigrants Facing Linguistic Barriers in the U.S. Justice System: Case Studies from North Carolina

Chapter · 2019 Cite

Translocal spaces and identities: Negotiating belonging among former refugees in a Facebook group message

Journal Article Language, Identity and Community (Lodz Studies in Language series) · 2019 Cite

Immigrants facing linguistic barriers in the U.S. justice system: Case studies from North Carolina

Chapter · December 12, 2018 The fundamental assumption underlying the operation of the U.S. justice system is that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. This basic fairness is established by the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process and the Sixth Amendment’s protection of th ... Full text Cite

Narratives of migration on Facebook: Belonging and identity among former fellow refugees

Journal Article Language in Society · April 1, 2018 This article brings together research on migration and identity in translocal and superdiverse contexts, and the recently expanding interest in narratives and interaction in social media, by examining the construction of identities in narratives shared in ... Full text Cite

Language in immigrant America

Book · January 1, 2017 Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and a current polit ... Full text Cite

Linguistic practice and identity work: Variation in Taiwan Mandarin at a Taipei County high school

Journal Article Journal of Sociolinguistics · 2014 Featured Publication This article examines variation in the use of two Taiwan Mandarin features, de-retroflection of sibilant fricatives [ʂ] > [s], and labial glide deletion [wɔ] > [ɔ], in the speech of Taipei County high school students. The features become resources for the ... Cite

Dominika M Baran

Selected Publications

Anti-genderism in Global Nationalist Movements

Anti-genderism in Global Nationalist Movements

Defending Christianity from the “rainbow plague”: Historicized narratives of nationhood in rightwing antigenderist discourses in Poland

American immigrants and English

‘Rainbow plague’ or ‘rainbow allies’? tęcza ‘rainbow’ as a floating signifier in the contestation of Poland’s national identity