Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Language Activism

The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change

Av Cecelia Cutler, Unn Røyneland, Zvjezdana Vrzić

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Beskrivning

Bringing together a renowned group of scholars from a range of disciplines - sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, philosophy of language, and language documentation - this book explores the role academics can play in language activism. It surveys the most common tensions that language researchers experience in their attempts to enact social change through their work, such as how far they can become politically involved, how they can maintain objectivity in an activist role, whether their work can ever be apolitical, and what ideologies they propagate. In a series of concise original chapters, each author discusses their own experiences and personal concerns; some offering more theoretically informed elaborations on the topic of language activism. Showcasing the state-of-the-art in language activism, this book is essential reading for anyone considering the need for scholarly engagement with the public and the communities in which they work, and the impact that this activism can have on society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2025-02-06
Mått: 159 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt: 530 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 262
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108833165

Utforska kategorier

Språkvetenskap och lingvistik

Mer om författaren

Cecelia Cutler is Professor and Chair of the M.A./Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Recent publications include Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication (co-edited with Røyneland, CUP, 2018) and Digital Orality (co-edited with Ahmar and Bahri, Palgrave, 2022). Unn Røyneland is Professor and Center Director of MultiLing (Center of Multilingualism, 2021-24), University of Oslo. Recent volumes include Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication (co-edited with Cutler, CUP, 2018) Multilingualism across the Lifespan and Spaces of Multilingualism (both co-edited with Blackwood, Routledge, 2022). Zvjezdana Vrzić is Adjunct Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Department of Linguistics of New York University. Recent work includes the publication Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas (co-edited with Angermeyer and Cutler, John Benjamins, 2017) and language collection Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language ('ruo') (Endangered Language Archive, 2018).

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'… there is something of interest to anyone concerned with language rights and community work … Recommended.' L. Lopez, Choice

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