Wendy Klein
Wendy Klein is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on language socialization, language ideologies, and institutional discourses that shape language access policies and practices. Her interdisciplinary projects have examined the linguistic, cultural, and religious socialization of Sikh youth and the semiotics of belonging in Punjabi Sikh families; bilingual youth diagnosed with autism in Japanese immigrant families; and activist, institutional, and social media discourses linked to English as the official language of the U.S.
Linguistic Anthropology; Language Socialization; Ethnography of Communication; Language Ideologies; Conversation Analysis; Narrative Discourse, Language and Social Justice; Sociolinguistics; Language and Autism; Social Media Discourse; Political Discourse; Language and Religion; Culture, Collaboration, and Conflict in Family Interactions; Japan; the U.S.; India/South Asian Diaspora.
ANTH/LING 170: Introduction to Linguistics
ANTH 412: Culture and Communication
ANTH/LING 413: Language and Culture ANTH
418: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
LING 425/ANTH 421: Education Across Cultures
LING 472: Language and Social Justice
LING 477: Language Socialization
ANTH 510: Proseminar
LING 533/ANTH 530: Ethnography of Communication
LING 540: Sociolinguistics
LING 572: Seminar in Language and Social Justice
2024. Klein, Wendy. "Autism and bilingual socialization: parents’ perspectives and youth language practices in three bilingual families." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–16.
2021. Klein, Wendy. "Managing trouble spots in conversation: Other-initiated repair elicitations produced by a bilingual youth with autism." Pragmatics 31(2): 225-249.
2020. Klein, Wendy. "Shaping Sikh youth subjectivities in a US Gurdwara: The discursive socialization of religious heritage in Sikh history classes." In Language Socialization in Classrooms: Culture, Interaction, and Language Development, edited by Matthew J. Burdelski and Kathryn M. Howard, pp. 49 – 70. Cambridge University Press.
2018. Klein, Wendy. Review of Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers by David F. Lancy. American Anthropologist, 120 (3): 623-624.
2015. Klein, Wendy. "Responding to Bullying: Language Socialization and Religious Identification in Classes for Sikh Youth." Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 14 (1):19-35.
2013. Klein, Wendy. "Heritage Language Socialization and Language Ideologies in a Sikh Education Program." Heritage Language Journal, 10 (1): 36-50.
2013. Klein, Wendy, and Carolina Izquierdo. "Housework: Collaboration and Conflict." In Fast Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle Class America, edited by Elinor Ochs and Tami Kremer-Sadlik, pp. 94-111. University of California Press. Also appeared in The Atlantic online.
2013. Klein, Wendy, and Marjorie Harness Goodwin. "Children and Chores in Working Families." In Fast Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle Class America, edited by Elinor Ochs and Tami Kremer-Sadlik, pp. 111-130. University of California Press.
2010. Arcidiacono, Francesco, Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, and Thomas N. Bradbury. "Interactional modalities within the division of household labor: an ethnographic study among Italian and U.S. families." Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata. (Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics), Vol X(1-2):85-105.
2010. Klein, Wendy, Anthony P. Graesch, and Carolina Izquierdo. "Children and Chores: A Mixed-Methods Study of Children’s Household Work in Los Angeles Families." Anthropology of Work Review, 30(3) December: 98-109.
2008. Klein, Wendy. "Turban Narratives: Discourses of Identification and Difference among Punjabi Sikh Families in Los Angeles." In Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America, edited by Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo. Oxford University Press.
2007. Klein, Wendy, Carolina Izquierdo, and Thomas N. Bradbury. "Working relationships: Communicative patterns and strategies among couples in everyday life." Qualitative Research in Psychology, 4:29-47.
