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In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.
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Mary Louise Pratt
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As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.
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Noel Marie Fletcher (Captives of the Southwest)
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson is known for encouraging lifelong learning in his employees. Branson is wise to point out that providing this training doesn’t necessarily mean huge expense. Author Mary K. Pratt echoes this sentiment in regards to affordable training, outlining six creative and low-cost ways you can encourage learning.
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Chad Halverson (People Management: Everything you need to know about managing and leading people at work)
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As Mary Louise Pratt reminds us in a powerful piece about the vulnerability of idioms, “[A]ll languages belong to their speakers in a way they do not belong to everyone else” (Pratt 2016, 246).
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Simona Bertacco (The Relocation of Culture: Translations, Migrations, Borders (Literatures, Cultures, Translation))