Full Description
Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, fostering greater awareness of how linguistic choices become political ones and encouraging the search for practices that promote social justice.
The volume is organized around different sections that look at language attitudes and their intersections with different dimensions of contemporary social and cultural life, including language policy and planning, language and education, and the role of identity in forming strong communities that promote multilingualism and multiculturalism. Both established and emerging scholars explore the ways in which language attitudes are informed by extralinguistic factors, drawing on case studies involving French, Italian, and Spanish in Canada; interaction of migrant languages in Austria; national languages in West Africa and Senegal; signed languages in Spain; Spanish in Aruba, Uruguay, the US, Catalonia, and Majorca; and Quechua in Peru. The collection urges the development of critical linguistic awareness and a view of languages which recognizes that they shift and change across time and space.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language education, language policy and planning, and bilingual education.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Mara R. Barbosa and Talia Bugel
Part I - Planning, Policy, Prejudice, and Exclusion
2. The Importance of Catalan-Medium Instruction for Language Attitudes in Catalonia
Marguerite Morlan
3. When Human Rights and Language Ideologies Come into Conflict: The Debate Over Inclusive Language in Uruguay
Mariana Achugar
4. In the Quest for Social Justice: Language Attitudes and Language Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato
5. Language Attitudes and Learning to Read: The Example of the "Lecture Pour Tous" in Senegal
Mouhamed Abdallah Ly and Talia Bugel
Part II - Education
6. (Re)shaping Students' Attitudes Toward Learning Spanish in the US: An Autoethnography of a Teacher as Policy Interpreter
Carlo Cinaglia
7. Unfair Advantage or Mutual Benefits? Attitudes of Second and Heritage Language Learners Toward Mixed Language Courses
Angela George
8. Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes and Ideologies Concerning Local Language Varieties in South Texas
Mara R. Barbosa
Part III - Identity
9. Language Use and Attitudes Toward Spanish in Aruba
Ellen-Petra Kester and Zoë de Cuba
10. California Spanish as "Non-existent": Spanish Language Ideologies Within the Latinx Community
Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Eve Higby, Melissa Venegas and Lara Boyero Agudo
11. Identity and Sign Language Varieties in Spain: Attitudes and Beliefs
Inmaculada C. Báez Montero and María C. Bao Fente
12. Inherent Language Narratives: Rethinking Mother Tongue in Multilingual Contexts - A Biographical Exploration of Multilingual Adolescents in Austria
Carola Koblitz
13. Evaluation and Perception of Spanish Varieties by Majorcans: Distance, Prestige and Identity
Beatriz Méndez Guerrero and Laura Camargo Fernández
14. Common Beliefs and Openness Discourses Among Learners of Quechua as a Second Language in Peru: An Analysis of Linguistic Ideologies
Claudia Crespo del Río
Index
