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Date: 10-Jan-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Intersections of language rights and social justice in the Caribbean context: Forrester (2023)


Title: Intersections of language rights and social justice in the
Caribbean context
Series Title: Studies in Caribbean Languages
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/407

Author: Clive Forrester
Abstract:

This volume brings together the work of six authors who explore
various dimensions of language rights and how they intersect with
social justice in the Caribbean context. Language rights advocacy has
been an ongoing issue in Caribbean linguistics since at least the
1970s when the Society for Caribbean Linguistics was established and
linguists started to turn their attention to the marginalised status
of Creole languages in the region. This continued into the 1990s when
dismal scores in secondary school English resulted in governments
singling out Creole languages as the culprit and linguists had to get
involved in shaping language policy for territories across the region.
By 2011 the role of linguists was cemented in the language rights
debate with the creation of the Charter on Language Rights in the
Creole-speaking Caribbean. Using examples from Jamaica and St. Lucia,
the current study examines the challenges that still persist ten years
after the Charter, specifically in the areas of language advocacy,
linguistic discrimination, and communicative hurdles in the courtroom.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Jamamadí (jaa)

Language Family(ies): Caribbean

Written In: English (eng)



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