Global Language Justice

This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis.

List of contents

Poems and Artworks
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Lifeworld of Languages: Rethinking Logos, Oikos, and Techné, by Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao
1. Equality or Diversity: Language, Rights, Justice, by L. Maria Bo
2. Global Language Justice Inside the Doughnut: A Planetary Perspective, by Suzanne Romaine
3. The Asylum Trial: Translating Justice at the Borders of Europe, by Tommaso Manfredini
4. Challenging “Extinction” Through Modern Miami Language Practices, by Wesley Y. Leonard
5. Indigenous Languages Between Erasure and Disinvention, by Daniel Kaufman and Ross Perlin
6. Linguistic Democracy and the Algerian Hirak, by Madeleine Dobie
7. Digital Vitality for Linguistic Diversity: The Script Encoding Initiative, by Deborah Anderson
8. Language Justice in the Digital Sphere, by Isabelle a. Zaugg
9. Exit: An Interview, by Laura Kurgan and Charlotte A. Silverman
Contributors
Index

About the author

Edited by Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao, with Charlotte A. Silverman

Summary

This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Lydia (Columbia University) Rao Liu
• Assisted by: Lydia Liu (Editor), Anupama Rao (Editor), Rao Anupama (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2023
• EAN: 9780231210393
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21039-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Assisted by: Charlotte A. Silverman
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, language arts & disciplines; social science