In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors
develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the
importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves
exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways
in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and
structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to
support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and
multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to
accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural
societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of
democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically
rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human
Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel
discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and
linguistic identities.
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Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change
Product details
ISBN
9781783099665
Published
2020
Edition
1. edition
Publisher
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok