Inclusive Language

Auteur

Michele Saraiva Carilo is a Teaching Fellow in Language Education and the Programme Director of MSc Language and Intercultural Communication at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her teaching and research interests are related to Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Language Education, Language Teacher Education, Critical Pedagogies, Romance Languages - especially Brazilian varieties of Portuguese and Interlanguages across South America - Decolonisation of Language Teaching and Learning, and Inclusive Language. She represents the Institute for Language Education at the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and co-founded the Research Group TILTED (Towards Intersectionality in Language Teacher Education) with the Language(s), Interculturality, and Literacies Research Hub.

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Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of language that can be considered acts of sociolinguistic revolution from across a range of social media platforms.

Résumé
Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of language that can be considered acts of sociolinguistic revolution from across a range of social media platforms.

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Introduction

Part I: What Language Doesn't Say Speaks Volumes

1. When Prescriptivism Ends, Does Descriptivism Really Begin?

2. From Language as a System to Sociolinguistics and Critical Intercultural Perspectives: Implications and Limitations for Language Teaching and Learning

3. Sociocultural Identities, Intersectionality, and Inclusive Language: Why Representation Matters and Creates Spaces for Agency

Part II: Where and How Language Is Being Changed

4. Critical Digital Ethnography within Social Media Platforms as a Research Design

5. When Digital Activism and Digital Representation Collide

Part III: Sociolinguistic Agents

6. Virtual Is Real: The Sociolinguistic Revolution Has Been Posted and Livestreamed

7. The Language Classroom as a Space Where Inclusive Language Goes to Thrive

8. Final (for Now) Remarks, Thoughts, and Expectations