1st Edition

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice Identity, Prejudice, and Education

Edited By Mara R. Barbosa, Talia Bugel Copyright 2025
312 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

 

 

 

Biography

Mara R. Barbosa is linguist and associate professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her recent publications include work in Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (2020) and New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (2020).

Talia Bugel is a linguist and professor in the Department of International Language and Culture Studies, Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her publications about language attitudes include work in New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (2020), Signo y Seña (2015), and RILI (2014).