The Multilingual Citizen : Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change Paperback / softback
Edited by Lisa Lim, Christopher Stroud, Lionel Wee
Part of the Encounters series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Channel View Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:27/02/2018
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- ISBN:9781783099641
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Channel View Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:27/02/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783099641
