Language Activism

Cecelia Cutler is Professor and Chair of the M.A./Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Recent publications include Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication (co-edited with Røyneland, CUP, 2018) and Digital Orality (co-edited with Ahmar and Bahri, Palgrave, 2022). Unn Røyneland is Professor and Center Director of MultiLing (Center of Multilingualism, 2021-24), University of Oslo. Recent volumes include Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication (co-edited with Cutler, CUP, 2018) Multilingualism across the Lifespan and Spaces of Multilingualism (both co-edited with Blackwood, Routledge, 2022). Zvjezdana Vrzić is Adjunct Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Department of Linguistics of New York University. Recent work includes the publication Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas (co-edited with Angermeyer and Cutler, John Benjamins, 2017) and language collection Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language ('ruo') (Endangered Language Archive, 2018).

List of figures; List of excerpts; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: perspectives on language activism Cecelia Cutler, Unn Røyneland and Zvjezdana Vrzić; Part I. What Counts as Activism in Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives: 2. Language activism and decolonialism: from extractivist to emergent politics Alastair Pennycook; 3. Language activism and social justice -why languages still matter Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg and Unn Røyneland; 4. Getting to know the dairy cow: an inclusive and self-reflexive sociolinguistics in multispecies emotional encounters Leonie Cornips; Part II. Activism in the Lecture Hall and the School System: 5. Radical pedagogies: scholarship in times of insurgent social movements Nkululeko Mabandla and Ana Deumert; 6. Advocacy and activism: language policy in Israel over time Elana Shohamy and Michal Tannenbaum; 7. Labeling ethnolects: challenges and potentials Cecelia Cutler; Part III. Activism in Minoritized and Endangered Language Communities: 8. '¿Para qué sirve la utopía?' Aims and activism strategies in minoritized language research Haley De Korne; 9. Activism and endangered language work, with an arctic focus Lenore A. Grenoble; 10. The researcher's role in language policy processes – engagement and change Pia Lane; 11. About researcher ethics and activism: reflections on linguistic research in an endangered language community in Croatia Zvjezdana Vrzić; Part IV. Activism in the Public Space: 12. Becoming a public sociolinguist Quentin Williams; 13. Critical linguistic awareness – a tool for combating hate speech Anne Birgitta Nilsen; 14. Croatia's language ideologies and language activism Anđel Starčević, Mate Kapović and Daliborka Sarić; References; Index.