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Typographical advocacy in the age of digital encoding
This paper contemplates the concept of typographical advocacy , defined here as a variety of activities, strategies, and policies designed to increase...
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Advocacy strategies for a new multilingual educational policy in Israel
Advocacy strategies are characterized by collaborations amongst various stakeholders working together to create changes and reforms. In language...
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Language advocacy in times of securitization and neoliberalization: The Network LanguageRights
In this contribution, we aim to address the following questions: What does it mean to do language advocacy in 2022? Under which conditions does it...
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Afterword: Conviction, Advocacy and Resilience
The author highlights important aspects of his background and career, then addresses salient points in the individual chapters, connecting these to...
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Queering the Book Club: Empathy Development Through Young Adult Literature in Australian Discussion Groups
Young Adult (YA) literature that focuses on the experiences of marginalized individuals and communities empowers young readers, challenges social...
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Palestine: Challenges Students Faced in a Palestinian Undergraduate Translation Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This chapter provides a general context for translation and interpreting (T&I) education and the profession in Palestine, with information on how the...
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After the Evacuation
Publicity in the West around the chaotic Evacuation in August 2021 had brought a wider group of endangered Afghan civilians into the civic...
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“The Most Honourable Brogad”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Jamaica’s Prime Minister as Hero, Sex Symbol and Villain on Social Media
This chapter examines the role of the public’s language use in giving and taking power away from political representatives. Within Critical Discourse...
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Language, Gender and Leadership: Applying the Sociolinguistics of Narrative and Identity in East Africa
This chapter focuses on ‘Global Challenges’ research, where we brought together multiple stakeholders in academia and a range of professions,...
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Language and Social (In)Justice
This chapter introduces and discusses language as a concern for social justice. It starts by outlining different approaches to social justice, and...
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Building Leadership Capacity: The Impact of Language Teacher Leadership Programs
Although all language teachers have the capacity to become leaders, certain supports and conditions are needed to effectively cultivate leadership...
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A Revolutionary Wonderland: Layered Didacticism in Chen Bochui’s Miss Alice (1931–1932)
Among Chinese adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Chen Bochui’s Miss Alice (1931–1932) is the most complete and widely...
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Individual language advocates and managers
In a theory of language policy, managers are individuals or institutions with authority to require others to change their language practices or...
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Media Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Two Cases and Related Examples: A Multimodal Discursive Study
This chapter addresses media reports representing gender-based violence (GBV). It interrogates media representation of GBV against women by...
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Four decades after Castañeda: a critical analysis of Bilingual/Dual Language Education in Colorado
The Castañeda Standard was handed down in 1981. We use this Standard along with Latino Critical Race Theory (Solorzano & Yosso,
2001 ) and Ruiz’s... -
Caught Between a Bilingual Policy and Monolingual English Practices in Chile: Opportunities and Challenges of Translanguaging
The current language policy in Chile aims to develop bilingualism in English and Spanish. However, these aims are highly contested as policy and...