Daniel N. Silva (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Jerry Won Lee (University of California

Language as Hope (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-i rst century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009306492
• Artikelnr.: 70910056

Autorenporträt

Daniel N. Silva is a professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brazil. His research focuses on language, violence, and hope in Rio de Janeiro's favelas.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Introduction
1. Language as Hope
2. 'País do Futuro' and Present-Day Communities of Hope
3. Hope in the Present
4. The Enregisterment of Hope
5. Scaling Hope
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.