Liberatory Linguistics

Bibliographic Data

ID9685477
AuthorsAnne H Charity Hudley (0000-0001-8273-3109, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume152
Issue3
Pages212-226
Publication date2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_02027
OpenAlexW4386261435
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited8

While the college population in the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, few studies focus on the goal of linguistic justice in higher education teaching and learning-a critical factor in achieving all forms of social equity. I offer liberatory linguistics as a productive, unifying framework for the scholarship that will advance strategies for attaining linguistic justice. Emerging from the synthesis of various lived experiences, academic traditions, and methodological approaches, I illustrate how a structural ignorance of language justice affects the lived experiences of people across the world. I present findings from my work with Black undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty members as they endeavor to embed a justice framework throughout the study of language broadly conceived. I conclude by highlighting promising strategies that can improve current approaches to engaging with structural realities that impede linguistic justice

Applied linguistics · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Equity (law · Ignorance · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching