Chantal Tetreault is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, USA. A specialist in linguistic and cultural anthropology, her work focuses on issues relating to migration and social change in France. She has contributed articles to journals such as Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,and Language and Communication.
...the relevance and deep theoretical underpinnings of Transcultural Teens offers social researchers robust case studies and strong practical examples of discourse analysis at work....a very relevant book that has been very well developed and organized. Tetreault's well-constructed ethnographic research collection methods and discourse analyses provide not only a very clear picture but further frame this active and increasingly important context in deep social theory. - Anton Vegel, AAA Book Forum, 2016 Tetreault's rich study of the communicative practices of adolescents of North African Arab heritage living in France conveys with lively specificity how these young people negotiate larger dilemmas of gender and ethnicity. Jane E. Goodman, Indiana University A beautifully textured and insightful ethnography of how Muslim teenagers in the French cites literally talk back to stigmatizing discourses and collectively build semiotically rich, morally structured, transcultural worlds. Paul A. Silverstein, Reed College