Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice

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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).

Résumé
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 encourages the search for practices that promote social justice.

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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

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