Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

Ruanni Tupas, National Institute of Education, Singapore, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. This excellent book provides much-needed reading for those interested in linguistic injustice, but also for anyone involved in the business, study or teaching of language.

Peter I. De Costa, Language in Society Pillers introduction to applied sociolinguistics is an outstanding addition to the growing body of work on language and people on the move.

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism The book offers a thorough and powerful analysis of how language-related issues stand in relation to injustice and discrimination. Todays globalized world might celebrate linguistic diversity rhetorically, but the author shows that reality is quite different one of systemic inequality and disadvantage Piller has the experience and expertise to write a volume such as this one, and she has done an amazing and thorough job. The book constitutes an important contribution to language related issues and social justice correlation in todays globalized world.

Mary Hudgens Henderson, LINGUIST List This text is an excellent introduction to how language is connected to local and global power structures.

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.

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