Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice
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This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects which have for various reasons been considered 'low-status' including: African American English, Spanglish, American Sign Language, Yiddish, Esperanto and other constructed languages, indigenous languages in post-colonial neo-European societies, and Afrikaans and related language issues in South Africa. Further, it discusses the implications of the ideology of linguistic legitimacy for the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the US. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book provides a readable and pedagogically useful tool to help readers comprehend the nature of human language, and the ways in which attitudes about human language can have either positive or negative consequences for communities and their languages. It will be of particular interest to language teachers and teacher educators, as well as students and scholars of applied linguistics, intercultural communication, minority languages and language extinction.
ISBN
9783030109660
Publication Date
2019
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham, Switzerland
Keywords
human language, linguistic legitimacy
Disciplines
Linguistics
Recommended Citation
Reagan, Timothy, "Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice" (2019). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 303.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/303
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