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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Title: Beyond Language<br>
Subtitle: Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality<br>
Author: Demet Arpacık<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Series Title: Contributions to the Sociology of Language (ed. by Ofelia García & Francis M. Hult)<br>
Published: November 2024<br>
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton<br>
Book URL: </span><u><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111143873/html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111143873/html</span></a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hardcover: ISBN: 9783111139739, Pages: 342, Price: EURO 109,95, USD 120.99, GBP 100.00<br>
eBook: ISBN: 9783111143873, Pages: 342, Price: EURO 109,95, USD 120.99, GBP 100.00<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Abstract:
This ethnographic work examines both the colonial language
governmentality imposed by the Turkish state and the Kurdish language
activism as a response to this system. Through a genealogical
study, it calls for a reconsideration of the linguistic condition in
Turkey as being more than nationalist, highlighting its foundation in
intertwined ideologies of racism, imperialism, and colonialism. It then
provides an analysis of new possibilities and
directions led by the actors of the Kurdish language movement, which
seeks to enhance not only the linguistic but also the socio-political
condition of the Kurdish people by taking a "beyond language" approach.
The work advances our thinking about language
oppression and minority language activism. (Winner of the Joshua A.
Fishman Award 2021)</span></p>
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