Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice

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).

• ContentsList of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgments1. IntroductionMara R. Barbosa and Talia BugelPart I – Planning, Policy, Prejudice, and Exclusion2. The Importance of Catalan-Medium Instruction for Language Attitudes in CataloniaMarguerite Morlan3. When Human Rights and Language Ideologies Come into Conflict: The Debate Over Inclusive Language in UruguayMariana Achugar4. In the Quest for Social Justice: Language Attitudes and Language Policy in Sub-Saharan AfricaOzouf Sénamin Amedegnato5. Language Attitudes and Learning to Read: The Example of the "Lecture Pour Tous" in SenegalMouhamed Abdallah Ly and Talia BugelPart II – Education6. (Re)shaping Students’ Attitudes Toward Learning Spanish in the US: An Autoethnography of a Teacher as Policy InterpreterCarlo Cinaglia7. Unfair Advantage or Mutual Benefits? Attitudes of Second and Heritage Language Learners Toward Mixed Language CoursesAngela George8. Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes and Ideologies Concerning Local Language Varieties in South TexasMara R. BarbosaPart III – Identity9. Language Use and Attitudes Toward Spanish in ArubaEllen-Petra Kester and Zoë de Cuba10. California Spanish as “Non-existent”: Spanish Language Ideologies Within the Latinx CommunityClaudia Holguín Mendoza, Eve Higby, Melissa Venegas and Lara Boyero Agudo11. Identity and Sign Language Varieties in Spain: Attitudes and BeliefsInmaculada C. Báez Montero and María C. Bao Fente12. Inherent Language Narratives: Rethinking Mother Tongue in Multilingual Contexts – A Biographical Exploration of Multilingual Adolescents in AustriaCarola Koblitz13. Evaluation and Perception of Spanish Varieties by Majorcans: Distance, Prestige and IdentityBeatriz Méndez Guerrero and Laura Camargo Fernández14. Common Beliefs and Openness Discourses Among Learners of Quechua as a Second Language in Peru: An Analysis of Linguistic IdeologiesClaudia Crespo del RíoIndex