ISBN:
9780231210386
,
9780231210393
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 318 Seiten
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Social justice
;
Essays
Abstract:
"This volume seeks to investigate how the stories of languages' survival, death, and revival across world culture is intrinsic to the larger ecological, political, and socioeconomic processes that cut across developed and developing societies. The multi-disciplinary group of contributors explore through research and literary experimentation the evolving and open-ended processes that have been central to how language communities come into being, disperse, intermingle, disappear or revive and, conversely, how the relationship amongst languages--never reducible to the speakers of particular languages who might be bilingual, multilingual, or translingual--shapes ecological, political, and socioeconomic processes. These may include, for example, discriminatory public policies, unjust social practices in education, unequal distributions of language-based resources such as the access to digital technology, health care, and social services in general. Although the volume considers endangerment of Indigenous languages and their preservation, its true focus is on linguistic resilience and vitality--the new possibilities that arise through population movement, unexpected encounters, technological innovation, and social transformation. A unique take on what true language justice might look like, Global Language Justice will be essential reading for a diverse audience of global policymakers, humanities and legal scholars, translators, and more"--
Note:
Includes index
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