- Royce Fellowship
Merone
Tadesse
Concentration
Sociology and Development Studies
Award Year
2014
Broken English, Triumphant Codes: Common Language Through Common Experience
Faculty Sponsor: Jose Itzigsohn
Merone studied the social and cultural values expressed by first-generation-born-in-Canada college age youth living in Vancouver, BC. This demographic, regardless of ethnic or geographic background, tends to form close bonds and Merone investigated how their commonality manifests itself through language and how they cope with switching from this private language and network to more mainstream, public language in a university setting.