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Beschreibung
This book explores how linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to migration and globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is a call to write language into the social justice agenda.
This book explores how linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to migration and globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is a call to write language into the social justice agenda.
Über den Autor
Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research expertise is in Intercultural Communication, the Sociolinguistics of Language Learning and Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. She serves as editor-in-chief of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua and curates the sociolinguistics portal Language on the Move.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • 1 Introduction

  • Linguistic diversity

  • Social justice

  • Overview

  • Join the conversation

  • 2 Linguistic diversity and stratification

  • Language, multilingualism, linguistic diversity

  • Hierarchy in diversity

  • Language pyramids

  • The diversity of the Other

  • Seeing 'super-diversity'

  • Inventing homogeneity

  • Summary

  • 3 The subordination of linguistic diversity

  • The territorial principle

  • Language segregation

  • Debating the territorial principle

  • Linguistic diversity and personal responsibility

  • Grassroots language learning

  • Judging speakers

  • Linguistic diversity and moral worth

  • Remaking language learners

  • Summary

  • 4 Linguistic diversity at work

  • Language proficiency as a barrier to employment

  • What's in a name?

  • Job interviews

  • Multiple vulnerabilities

  • Survival employment and deskilling

  • Language learning on the job

  • Suppressing linguistic diversity

  • Alternative language regimes

  • Summary

  • 5 Linguistic diversity in education

  • The monolingual habitus of multilingual schools

  • Submersion education

  • Compounding disadvantage

  • Testing against linguistic diversity

  • Misdiagnosing language proficiency

  • Denying the benefits of multilingualism

  • Summary

  • 6 Linguistic diversity and participation

  • Linguistic barriers to participation

  • Language and the gender gap

  • Linguistically-motivated violence

  • Micro-aggressions

  • Linguistic alienation

  • Summary

  • 7 Linguistic diversity and global justice

  • Language and development

  • Injustices of English language education

  • Injustices of English as global academic language

  • Paying tribute to the Anglophone center

  • Psychological damages of global English

  • Summary

  • 8 Linguistic justice

  • Normative linguistic justice

  • Real linguistic utopias

  • The struggle for linguistic justice

  • References

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199937264
ISBN-10: 0199937265
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Piller, Ingrid
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Ingrid Piller
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,409 kg
Artikel-ID: 108604281

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