Linguistics in pursuit of justice / John Baugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baugh, John, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in language.

Critical discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Critical discourse analysis.

Sociolingusitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often subjected to mistreatment by the police. His observations piqued his curiosity about the ways that linguistic diversity might be related to the burgeoning Civil Rights movement for racial equality in America. Baugh pursued these ideas whilst traveling internationally only to discover alternative forms of linguistic discrimination in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and South America. He coined the phrase 'linguistic profiling' based on experimental studies of housing discrimination, and expanded upon those findings to promote equity in education, employment, medicine and the law. This book is the product of the culmination of these studies, devoted to the advancement of equality and justice globally.

Contents:

Linguistics, life, and death

Linguistics, injustice, and inequality

Some linguistic and legal consequences of slavery in the United States

Linguistic profiling

Earwitness testimony and unbiased formulation of auditory line-ups

Dialect identification and discrimination in the United States

Formulating discrimination: dimensions of a historical hardship index

Linguistic harassment

Linguistic contributions to the advancement of justice

Shall we overcome?.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-65582-3

1-316-59775-X

1-108-58225-7