The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education

Author: Joel Austin Windle

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1788926951

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This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities. Through critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analysis, the chapters explore how such boundaries contribute to the geopolitics of colonialism, capitalism and myriad, interwoven, forms of social life that structure both oppression and resistance. Boundaries are examined across time and space as relational constructs that mark the terms upon which admission to groups, institutions, territories, or practices are granted. The studies further present alternative educational approaches that demonstrate the potential for agency and transgression, highlighting moments of boundary crossing that disrupt existing linguistic ideologies, language policies and curriculum structures.

Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication
Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication

Author: Yukio Tsuda

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9027225575

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This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant languages, especially English, and speakers of minority languages in the context of international and intercultural communication. Based on a theoretical framework of “Distorted Communication” developed by J. Habermas and C. Müller, the analysis focuses on a critical description, definition, and interpretation of “Distorted Intercultural Communication”, and exposes the ideology that legitimates linguistic inequality and distortion in communication.

Power and Inequality in Language Education
Power and Inequality in Language Education

Author: James W. Tollefson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-02-24

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780521462662

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In Power and Inequality in Language Education, James W. Tollefson assembles the work of twelve scholars who explore the relationship between language policy, wealth, and power. Their original research demonstrates how language planning and education reflect existing inequities in the distribution of economic, political, and social power, and how language policy is used to obtain and maintain power. Articles examine such timely topics as the growth of official language movements, the role of language teachers in reinforcing social inequality, and misconceptions regarding how first vs. second language competence is related to financial success. Together the articles illustrate the broad impact of sociopolitical forces upon language education, and underscore the need for language teachers and applied linguists to consider these forces in their work.

Planning Language, Planning Inequality
Planning Language, Planning Inequality

Author: James W. Tollefson

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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An examination of how an individual's native language can affect their lifestyle. Topics covered range from maintenance of the mother-tongue and second language learning, to the ideology of language planning theory, to education and language rights.

Language and the Law
Language and the Law

Author: Douglas A. Kibbee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1316785122

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Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority languages, and speakers' legal rights have come increasingly to the forefront. One fifth of the American population do not speak English as their first language. While race, gender and religious discrimination are recognized as illegal, the US does not currently accord the same protections regarding language; discrimination on the basis of language is accepted, and even promoted, in the name of unity and efficiency. Setting language within the context of America's history, this book explores the diverse range of linguistic inequalities, covering voting, criminal and civil justice, education, government and public services, and the workplace, and considers how linguistic differences challenge our fundamental ideals of democracy, justice and fairness.

Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics

Author: Richard A. Hudson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-06-13

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521565141

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New edition of widely-acclaimed textbook, including new sections on up-to-date topics for the 1990s.

Voices of Modernity
Voices of Modernity

Author: Richard Bauman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-03

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780521008976

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Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.

Language Activism
Language Activism

Author: Haley De Korne

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-08-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1501511424

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While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists and advocates at local levels are playing an increasingly significant role in the creation of new social imaginaries and practices in multilingual contexts. This volume describes how social actors across multiple domains contribute to the elusive goal of linguistic equality or justice through their language activism practices. Through an ethnographic account of Indigenous Isthmus Zapotec language activism in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates the (sometimes conflicting) imaginaries of what positive social change is and how it should be achieved, and the repertoire of strategies through which these imaginaries are being pursued. Ethnographic and action research conducted from 2013-2018 in the multilingual Isthmus of Tehuantepec brings to light the experiences of educators, students, writers, scholars and diverse cultural activists whose aspirations and strategies of social change are significant in shaping the future language ecology. Their repertoire of strategies may inform and encourage language activists, scholars, and educators working for change in other contexts of linguistic diversity and inequality.

Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice
Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice

Author: John Baugh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 110715345X

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Explores the role of linguistics in promoting justice and equality with regard to ethnic minorities, legal matters and civil rights.

Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms
Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms

Author: Luisa Martín Rojo

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-07-30

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 3110226642

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In her groundbreaking and innovative study, the author takes us on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools and reveals the role played by linguistic practices in the construction of inequality through such processes as what she calls "de-capitalization" and "ethnicization". Through a critical sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of the data collected in an ethnographic study, the book shows the exclusion caused by monolingualizing tendencies and ideologies of deficit in education and society. The book opens a timely discussion of the management of diversity in multilingual and multicultural classrooms, both for countries with a long tradition of migration flows and for those where the phenomenon is relatively new, as is the case in Spain. This study of linguistic practices in the classroom makes clear the need to rethink some key linguistic concepts, such as practice, competence, discourse, and language, and to integrate different approaches in qualitative research. The volume is essential reading for students and researchers working in sociolinguistics, education and related areas, as well as for all teachers and social workers who deal with the increasing heterogeneity of our late modern societies in their work.