Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, fostering greater awareness of how linguistic choices become political ones and encouraging the search for practices that promote social justice. The volume is organized around different sections that look at language attitudes and their intersections with different dimensions of contemporary social and cultural life, including language policy and planning, language and education, and the role of identity in forming strong communities that promote multilingualism and multiculturalism. Both established and emerging scholars explore the ways in which language attitudes are informed by extralinguistic factors, drawing on case studies involving French, Italian, and Spanish in Canada; interaction of migrant languages in Austria; national languages in West Africa and Senegal; signed languages in Spain; Spanish in Aruba, Uruguay, the US, Catalonia, and Majorca; and Quechua in Peru. The collection urges the development of critical linguistic awareness and a view of languages which recognizes that they shift and change across time and space. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language education, language policy and planning, and bilingual education.

Mara R. Barbosa is linguist and associate professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her recent publications include work in Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (2020) and New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (2020). Talia Bugel is a linguist and professor in the Department of International Language and Culture Studies, Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her publications about language attitudes include work in New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (2020), Signo y Seña (2015), and RILI (2014).

Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Mara R. Barbosa and Talia Bugel Part I - Planning, Policy, Prejudice, and Exclusion 2. The Importance of Catalan-Medium Instruction for Language Attitudes in Catalonia Marguerite Morlan 3. When Human Rights and Language Ideologies Come into Conflict: The Debate Over Inclusive Language in Uruguay Mariana Achugar 4. In the Quest for Social Justice: Language Attitudes and Language Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato 5. Language Attitudes and Learning to Read: The Example of the "Lecture Pour Tous" in Senegal Mouhamed Abdallah Ly and Talia Bugel Part II - Education 6. (Re)shaping Students' Attitudes Toward Learning Spanish in the US: An Autoethnography of a Teacher as Policy Interpreter Carlo Cinaglia 7. Unfair Advantage or Mutual Benefits? Attitudes of Second and Heritage Language Learners Toward Mixed Language Courses Angela George 8. Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes and Ideologies Concerning Local Language Varieties in South Texas Mara R. Barbosa Part III - Identity 9. Language Use and Attitudes Toward Spanish in Aruba Ellen-Petra Kester and Zoë de Cuba 10. California Spanish as "Non-existent": Spanish Language Ideologies Within the Latinx Community Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Eve Higby, Melissa Venegas and Lara Boyero Agudo 11. Identity and Sign Language Varieties in Spain: Attitudes and Beliefs Inmaculada C. Báez Montero and María C. Bao Fente 12. Inherent Language Narratives: Rethinking Mother Tongue in Multilingual Contexts - A Biographical Exploration of Multilingual Adolescents in Austria Carola Koblitz 13. Evaluation and Perception of Spanish Varieties by Majorcans: Distance, Prestige and Identity Beatriz Méndez Guerrero and Laura Camargo Fernández 14. Common Beliefs and Openness Discourses Among Learners of Quechua as a Second Language in Peru: An Analysis of Linguistic Ideologies Claudia Crespo del Río Index