Benjamin Bailey
Male
- bbailey@comm.umass.edu
- Telephone
- 413-545-2522
- Personal website
- http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_and_staff/faculty/benjamin_bailey.shtml
- Interests
- Language and Discourse, Social interaction, intercultural communication
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
Biography
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1999
M.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1996
B.A., Brown University, 1987
Author of Language, Race, and Negotiation of Identity: A Study of Dominican Americans (2002, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing) and various articles and chapters on intercultural communication, code switching, Dominican immigrant identities, and negotiation of ethic and racial identities in face-to-face interaction (see CV). Current research focuses on capturing and representing pragmatic meanings in practically-oriented translation.