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This book explores how linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to migration and globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is a call to write language into the social justice agenda.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1 Marginalization as Concept and Theory -- 2 Social Identity -- 3 Intersectionality -- 4 Ba -- 5 The Social World of Japan -- 6 Chapter Overview: Modalities of Marginalization -- References -- Part I: Marginalization and Natural Language Data -- 2: Strategies of Discourse (Re)-Framing as Micropolitics Among Contemporary Japanese University Students -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Discourse (Re)-Framing -- 3 Forms of Mitai Na -- 4 Data -- 5 Analysis -- 5.1 Discourse (re)-framing and Female Strength -- 5.2 Discourse (re)-framing and Locating an Experience in the Everyday -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 3: When the Model Becomes the Marginalized: Identity Struggles of Japanese Job-Hunters -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 Social constructionist perspectives of self and identity -- 2.2 Gurōbaru jinzai -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Data collection -- 3.2 Research design -- 4 Survey Results and Discussion -- 4.1 Understandings and perceptions of a model gurōbaru jinzai -- 4.2 The myths and realities of gurōbaru jinzai -- 5 Identity Struggles -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- 4: The Struggle Against Hegemonic Femininity: The Narrative of a Japanese Actress -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Status of Japanese women -- 2.2 Women's lifestyles, between choice and forced choice -- 3 Data -- 4 The Stories and Analysis -- 4.1 Can you sell your body? Women cry and men work -- 4.2 As if I do something very wrong: Apology for being a absent mother -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Transcription Conventions -- References -- 5: Intersectional Identities: Voices from the Margins of ELT in Japan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 2.1 Native-speakerism in ELT in Japan.

This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), is concerned with European multilingualism both as a political concept and as a social reality. It features cutting-edge studies by linguists and anthropologists who perceive multilingualism as a discursive phenomenon which can be revealed and analyzed through empirical fieldwork. The book presents a fresh perspective of European multilingualism as it takes the reader through key themes of social consciousness-identity, policy, education, economy- and relevant societa

The study validates feasibility of interdisciplinary research into the problem of emotions and the language. The term text emotiogenicity is contrasted with the terms emotivity and emotionality. The emotional impact of the text upon the addressee is investigated experimentally. In accordance with V.P. Belyanin's classification, the two emotive literary texts, chosen as research material, represent "bright" and "sorrowful" types. The experiment involved the students of Saint Petersburg State Theater Arts Academy and the students of Herzen University. The auditive analysis of the readers' intonation was carried out to interpret the emotiogenicity of these texts. The high degree of text emotiogenicity actualizes when the addressee experiences the same emotions as the literary text character. In this case the emotions are expressed in reader's intonation. The prosodic correlates of admiration and tenderness when a person reads the "bright" text and the correlates of fatality and depression while reading the "sorrowful" text are described. The emotiogenicity of the same text is apt to vary depending on the personality of the recipient. The author identifies the main reasons for variable prosodic correlates of contrary emotions when reading emotive literary texts.

AbstractAs part of a larger project studying language conflict, this paper documents ways in which the oppression of language use on the part of a dominant language/ethnic group is instrumentalized as a tool to inflict gratuitous societal pain and punishment upon nondominant ethnolinguistic groups and their individual members. Our arguments will be illustrated primarily by three contemporary cases: (1) the Uyghur minority in the PRC, (2) the Kurdish minority in Turkey, and (3) the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. This article also seeks to provide an example of ways in which important empirical questions in the political science/international relations literature might be more fully addressed with the help of linguistics, which is a focus of our ongoing language conflict project.

This article highlights issues of Othering and linguicism and identifies the challenges of undoing taboos of race and racism in popular and academic discourses in Germany. We discuss the prospect of introducing critical race theory to expose these issues that we see as especially urgent, as Germany remains host to very large numbers of international migrants. A monolingual and monocultural idea of Germany does not befit this country of immigration in the twenty-first century.

Although numerous studies have examined the representation of sexual violence in news and legal discourse, less is known about its representation when it occurs in the context of military and political conflict. This study analyses reports from the New York Times on two such contexts: the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Analysis reveals both similarities with the language used to report rape in non-conflict settings, and differences between the language used to describe rape and sexual abuse in the two settings. It is argued that reporting on the DRC uses an illustrative frame, which presents violence against women in sexualized terms and neglects to identify perpetrators or interrogate their motives. Reporting on Abu Ghraib, by contrast, uses an investigative frame, which de-emphasizes both the sexual nature of the abuse and the experiences of victims, focusing instead on the perpetrators as objects of judicial examination.