Comments on: Language and social justice

By: Researching multilingually as a political act - Language on the Move

Researching multilingually as a political act - Language on the Move — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 05:12:46 +0000

[…] languages and language varieties are imbued with different levels of social prestige, and that language use and language choice are closely tied up with issues of social justice in many contexts. But have you ever considered what impact the language choices made during a […]

By: Call for Action Towards Linguistic Rights: The Idea of Social Justice And Language Legitimacy » Legalonus

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 01:06:35 +0000

[…] Social justice can be further disclosed as the equitable which shares upon the societal power, benefits towards the weaker communities, and deserving the equal treatment from everyone in the view of political, economic, and financial approach. As the fair opportunities, compassionate practices, and access towards the judiciary system without any type of restriction can be said as the constituent growth with the virtue of accountability. According to the literature and scholar point of view –enacted rights can only be implemented properly when every individual is been treated equally without any biasness as ‘Social justice can encompass economy for pleading justice’ which involves positive conduct. Upon the area combination legal requirement can be based on the treaties and guidelines towards the state association for overcoming the issues of minorities upholding potential impact over the linguistics form of the diversity of language. The provision of the right which should be compared upon the freedom legal statute likewise – the basic principle of social justice and linguistic rights which can act as the merit towards the circumstances for the improvement of the economy by – equal rights that should overrule the prohibition on the discrimination, an equal level of opportunities which can provide with education rights or following up the profession, and last equal treatment towards the people which can enhance the understanding of people to ensure the minimal level of pain. […]

By: “Preferred” Pronouns: The Final (?) Frontier. | Human Events

“Preferred” Pronouns: The Final (?) Frontier. | Human Events — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:09:32 +0000

[…] of cultural violence and exclusion. As many prominent political thinkers on the left have observed, contesting common standards for language use is one way that this critical demolition of norms […]

By: “Preferred” Pronouns: The Final (?) Frontier. - iNFO Vi

“Preferred” Pronouns: The Final (?) Frontier. - iNFO Vi — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:11:12 +0000

By: Ingrid Piller

Ingrid Piller — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:30:45 +0000

In reply to Gegentuul.

Thanks, Gegentuul! For context, I wrote that entry 2 years ago in January 2019 … the mills if academic publishing grind slowly …
Having said that, China is not alone in promoting assimilation as the high road to social inclusion…

By: Gegentuul

Gegentuul — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:44:50 +0000

thanks Ingrid! Just read your contribution in the encyclopaedia of linguistic anthropology and cannot help but think of how the disadvantages faced by minoritized children at (yet to be fully monolingualized) schools are recently framed into an advantage by the official discourse in Inner Mongolia. The title of the news is: Let our children soar high and wide like awe inspiring eagles! (by learning only Mandarin supposedly).

By: Paul+Desailly

Paul+Desailly — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:21:03 +0000

Man is hiding behind his tongue coz some forms of utterance have the power of magic, well noted in Article Two of The Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Ingrid’s article illustrates that unity in diversity and justice for all are self-evidently served sub-optimally by colonial and imperial languages. ‘To give millions a knowledge of English is to enslave them.’ https://www.mkgandhi.org/towrds_edu/chap02.htm ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’