Extending Applied Linguistics for Social Impact: Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations in Diverse Spaces of Public Inquiry

This book demonstrates how scholars of language can work together with non-language specialists to address pressing concerns and issues of our time, such as recognizing the legitimacy of stigmatized language varieties, museum-based science education for linguistically diverse children, corpus analysis, embodied and artistic forms of meaning-making, and the transformative power of translanguaging in community-based theater. It also highlights ways to enhance equity in healthcare delivery for immigrant families, examines the experiences of cultural health navigators working with refugee-background families, and raises public awareness of language issues related to social justice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 23 February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Applied linguistics is a field that combines theories and methods from various disciplines to address pressing concerns and issues of our time. This book explores efforts to recognize the legitimacy of stigmatized language varieties in public and institutional domains, museum-based science education for linguistically diverse children, corpus analysis to illuminate the tension between language choices and commitments of certain leaders, embodied and artistic forms of meaning-making that challenge norms of Whiteness, and the transformative power of translanguaging in community-based theater. Additionally, the volume demonstrates ways to enhance equity in healthcare delivery for immigrant families, examines the experiences of cultural health navigators working with refugee-background families, and highlights the value of raising public awareness of language issues related to social justice. These accounts show that applied linguists are ready to interface with other scholars, institutions, and the public to make socially-engaged and impactful contributions to the study of language, society, education, and access. Collectively, the authors respond to an important gap in the field and take a significant step towards a more socially-just, accessible, and inclusive approach to applied linguistics.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350249547