Edited book
Advocating for Sociolinguistic Justice in the United States: Empowering Spanish-Speaking Communities
Routledge
2024
DOI: 10.4324/9781003442288
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Abstract
This collection focuses on social awareness and critical language awareness with the goal of enlightening and empowering multilingual and multicultural communities across the U.S.
Each chapter brings to light the trauma, gaps in services and misguided societal perceptions that adversely impact communities whose linguistic and cultural background and/or status as migrants place them in vulnerable situations. In doing so, the authors and editors demonstrate how an increased awareness of diverse communities’ linguistic and cultural wealth can be leveraged to build strength and resilience in order to overcome physical, verbal or symbolic violence and provide remedies for inequities in educational, medical, and legal contexts.
Showcasing discussions of the intersectionality and contexts in which language, power, migration, and the cultural funds of knowledge of minoritized communities interact, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and educators in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language education.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Advocating for Sociolinguistic Justice in the United States: Empowering Spanish-Speaking Communities
- Creators
- Michelle F Ramos Pellicia (Editor)Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza (Editor)Mercedes Niño-Murcia (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003442288
- ISBN
- 1032580488; 9781032580487
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York, NY
- Number of pages
- 311 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9984702957202771
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