Linguistic Counter-Standardization - Exploring Liberatory Language Practices around "Japanese"

Language standardization is problematic because it imposes the dominant group's linguistic variety as the only correct one and promotes the idea of unit thinking, i.e., seeing the world as consisting of bounded, internally homogeneous units. This volume examines intentional practices to subvert such processes of language standardization (what we call counter-standardization practices) in language education and other contexts. By suggesting alternative classroom pedagogies, language reclamation processes for indigenous populations, and discourses about (mis)pronunciation, this volume explores more liberatory approaches: the post-unit thinking of language.

About the author

Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College in New Jersey, U.S.A.

Product details

• Assisted by: Neriko Musha Doerr (Editor), Neriko Musha Doerr (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2024
• EAN: 9783111572161
• ISBN: 978-3-11-157216-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Weight: 485 g
• Illustrations: 1 b/w and 5 col. ill., 2 b/w tbl.
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Pädagogik, Anthropologie, Sprachunterricht, Japanisch, Standardisierung, Standardization, Linguistics, Anthropology, Japanese, Power Relations, Sociolinguistics, Language Education, LAN020000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Politics of Difference, FOR035000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Creole Languages, Counter-Standardization