37.1942, Books: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language: Turkan and Schissel (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 28-May-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language: Turkan and Schissel (eds.) (2026)


Title: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language
Subtitle: Disentangling the Raciolinguistic Power Structures
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/racialized-nature-of-academic-language-9781350354524/

Editor(s): Sultan Turkan & Jamie L. Schissel

Paperback, ISBN: 9781350354524, £28.99

Abstract:

This book explores the marginalization that English as additional
language (EAL) learners, immigrant or language-minoritized people
confront when learning to socialize into using the language of
schooling. The authors examine racialized academic language not to
dismiss it, but to scrutinize its presence and impact on individuals'
lives.
Beginning with connections between eugenics, intelligence, whiteness,
language, monolingualism and bilingualism, it then reviews current
practices, and how the construction of academic language in various
schooling and non-schooling contexts creates hegemonic structures that
perpetuate deficit perspectives. The final section envisions what
could help dismantle the power knots that academic language holds in
systemic structures.
This is a vital book for teachers, teacher educators, and policy
makers who refuse the deficiency orientations placed on
non-standardized use of language at schools and want to deconstruct
the power that academic standardized language holds in the lives of
language-minoritized students.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics




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