31.3665, Books: Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice: Baugh

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:47:10
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice: Baugh

 


Title: Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/linguistics-pursuit-justice?format=PB 


Author: John Baugh

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316607312 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316607312 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316607312 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and
Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and
began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending
college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often
subjected to mistreatment by the police. His observations piqued his curiosity
about the ways that linguistic diversity might be related to the burgeoning
Civil Rights movement for racial equality in America. Baugh pursued these
ideas whilst traveling internationally only to discover alternative forms of
linguistic discrimination in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean
and South America. He coined the phrase 'linguistic profiling' based on
experimental studies of housing discrimination, and expanded upon those
findings to promote equity in education, employment, medicine and the law.
This book is the product of the culmination of these studies, devoted to the
advancement of equality and justice globally.

1. Introduction; 2. Linguistics, life, and death; 3. Linguistics, injustice,
and inequality; 4. Some linguistic and legal consequences of slavery in the
United States; 5. Linguistic profiling; 6. Earwitness testimony and unbiased
formulation of auditory line-ups; 7. Dialect identification and discrimination
in the United States; 8. Formulating discrimination: dimensions of a
historical hardship index; 9. Linguistic harassment; 10. Linguistic
contributions to the advancement of justice; 11. Shall we overcome?
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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