Language and Social Justice

Helen Sauntson is Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John University, UK. She specialises in teaching and researching sociolinguistics and applied linguistics and has published numerous books, chapters and journal articles.Clare Cunningham is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John University, UK. Her research work focuses on social and ecological justice issues, particularly focusing on education of multilingual children and discourses on climate change.Johanna Ennser-Kananen is Associate Professor of English and Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Language and Communication Studies. Her work focuses on linguistically and culturally sustaining language and teacher education, particularly on epistemic justice in educational contexts.Dai O’Brien is Associate Professor of BSL and Deaf Studies at York St John University, UK. Dai’s particular research interest lies in how signing deaf people navigate social contexts, and he has written numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently sitting on the Advisory Council of the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.

This timely and thoughtful volume is a must-read for anyone wishing to engage with language, power and ideology as they play out in human communities. Drawing in their readers with care and insight, the authors demonstrate how linguistic students and scholars can engage with activist practices and disrupt oppressive dynamics. Eric Louis Russell, University of California-DavisThis textbook offers students an invaluable and unique introduction to scholarship on language and social justice, presenting pertinent case studies on a wide range of issues. Readers are supported, through useful activities, in reflecting upon and engaging critically with discourses which reproduce inequalities, and in becoming activists through their research.Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham I believe Language and Social Justice: An Introduction to Linguistic Activism is a call to action and a practical book with ingredients necessary for language educators and activist applied linguists doing work with diverse communities who constantly seek to incorporate a more inclusive and equitable approach in their practice.Yecid Ortega, Queen’s University Belfast

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Introduction: Activist Applied Linguistics and ‘Caring for Language’Chapter 2 Language and Social Justice: Theory, History and ContextChapter 3 Approaches and Frameworks for Analysing Language and Social JusticeChapter 4 Language and Social Justice in Families and CommunitiesChapter 5 Language and Social Justice in SchoolsChapter 6 Language and Social Justice in Higher EducationChapter 7 Language and Social Justice at WorkChapter 8 Language and Social Justice in the MediaChapter 9 Language and Social Justice in Social MediaChapter 10 Language and Social Justice in PoliticsChapter 11 Language and Social Justice in Legal ContextsChapter 12 Language, Social Justice, Creativity and EmbodimentChapter 13 The Language of CrisisChapter 14 Language in Global Campaigning for Social JusticeChapter 15 Conclusion: Using Applied Linguistics in Social Justice ActivismIndex