33.283, Books: Language Activism: De Korne

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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:36:04
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Language Activism: De Korne

 


Title: Language Activism 
Subtitle: Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality 
Series Title: Contributions to the Sociology of Language  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501511561/html 


Author: Haley De Korne

Electronic: ISBN:  9781501511561 Pages: 259 Price: ----  
Hardback: ISBN:  9781501517402 Pages: 259 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

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. 
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Zapotec, Mitla (zaw)

Language Family(ies): Zapotecan


Written In: English  (eng)

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