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Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice Identity, Prejudice, and Education
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 encourages the search for practices that promote social justice.
The volume is organized around different sections which look at language attitudes and their intersection with different dimensions of contemporary social and cultural life: language policy and planning; language and education; and the role of identity in forming strong communities that promote multilingualism and multiculturalism. Both established and emerging scholars explore the ways in which language attitudes are informed by extralinguistic factors and in particular, stereotypes, drawing on case studies through the lens of French, Italian and Spanish in Canada; interaction of migrant languages in Austria; national languages in West Africa and in Senegal; Signed languages in Spain; Spanish in Aruba, Uruguay, the U.S., and Catalonia and Majorca in Spain; and Quechua in Peru.The collection urges the development of critical linguistic awareness and a view of languages which recognizes their ability to continue to shift across time and space.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language education, language policy and planning, and bilingual education.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Mara R. Barbosa
Talia Bugel
Part I – Education
2. The Importance of Catalan-Medium Instruction for Language Attitudes in Catalonia
Marguerite Morlan
3. When human rights and language ideologies come in conflict: the debate over inclusive language in Uruguay
Mariana Achugar
4. In Quest of 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 Program Lecture pour Tous in Senegal
Mouhamed Abdallah Ly
Talia Bugel
Part II – Identity
6. (Re)shaping Students’ Attitudes Toward Learning Spanish in the United States: An Autoethnography of a Teacher as Policy Interpreter
Carlo Cinaglia
7. Unfair advantage or mutual benefits?: Attitudes of second and heritage language learners towards mixed language courses
Angela George
8. Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes and Ideologies Concerning Local Language Varieties in South Texas
Mara R. Barbosa
Part III – Planning, policy, prejudice, exclusion
9. Language use and attitudes toward Spanish in Aruba
Ellen-Petra Kester
Zoë de Cuba
10. California Spanish as “non-existent”: Spanish language ideologies within the Latinx community
Claudia Holguín Mendoza
Eve Higby
Melissa Venegas
Lara Boyero Agudo
11. Identity and sign language varieties in Spain: attitudes and beliefs
Inmaculada C. Báez Montero
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
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 an associate professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. She studies the language attitudes of different groups, as well as how language attitudes may influence pedagogical practices. Her recent publications include work in Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (2020), New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (2020), and Language Learning Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students and Immigrant Communities (2019).
Talia Bugel is Professor in International Language and Culture Studies, Purdue University Fort Wayne, and a translator, applied linguist, and sociolinguist Her recent publications include work in New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (2020), Signo y Seña (2015) and Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (2014).
