36.2507, Books: Language as Hope: Silva and Lee (2025)

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Subject: 36.2507, Books: Language as Hope: Silva and Lee (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language as Hope: Silva and Lee (2025)


Title: Language as Hope
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/language-hope?format=PB&isbn=9781009306546

Author(s): Daniel N. Silva and Jerry Won Lee

Paperback ISBN:  9781009306546 Pages:  199 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781009306546 Pages:  199 Price: Europe EURO 26.83
Paperback ISBN:  9781009306546 Pages:  199 Price: U.S. $ 29.99

Abstract:

Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this
pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the
practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century.
Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban
peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and
violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine
futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds
how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It
provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce
conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a
tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully
impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential
reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also
available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Written In: English (eng)



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