The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice / edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and Vijay A. Ramjattan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Setter, Jane, editor.

Dovchin, Sender, editor.

Ramjattan, Vijay A., editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in language.

Prejudices.

Sociolinguistics.

sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).

Other Title:

Handbook of language and prejudice

Language and prejudice

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This volume offers an indepth examination of linguistic prejudice, covering its intersection with racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and various other forms of oppression. It includes perspectives from the Global South and explores initiatives to address prejudice on the basis of language.

Contents:

Sexism and sexist language / Ting‑Fai Yu

Gender and gendered language / Jaspal Naveel Singh

Anti‑trans, anti‑gender, and transphobic language / Jordan J. Tudisco

Anti‑LGB language / Helen Sauntson

Voice quality, pitch, and gender discrimination / Joe Pearce and others

Cultural stigmatization and linguistic prejudice in Deaf education in Ghana / George Akanlig‑Pare and Mary Edward

Language and discursive production of blind subjects : A study of Gujarati small stories / Zarana Maheshwari

Linguistic prejudice and discrimination against autistic people / Valéria Aydos and others

Prejudice and discrimination against adults living with acquired cognitive–communication disabilities / Christina Samuelsson and others

The role of metaphor and indexicality in the reinforcement of social meanings of disability / Rod Hermeston

“Racial blindness” and “racial ignorance” in the sociolinguistic arena : The case of the Balkans and South Korea / Eldin Milak and Ana Tankosić

Xenophobia and migration / Federico Faloppa

(De)valuing heritage languages across time and space / Haley De Korne and others

Language analysis for the determination of origin : A conflict of paradigms and its resolution through new protocols / Yaron Matras

Incredible language and refugee legal processes : Challenging asylum credibility assessments / Laura Smith‑Khan

Accentism / Stephanie Dryden and others

Dialectism / Dominic Watt

Age, ageism, and ageist language / Catherine MacDonald and others

Examining discrimination and prejudice as emerging constructs in health communication scholarship / Patrick J. Dillon and others

Poverty and wealth / Laura L. Paterson

Social status and linguistic prejudice in Brazil / Gladis Massini‑Cagliari

Language prejudice and discrimination on social media platforms in Southern Africa / Beatha Set and others

Politics, religion, and the empiring of languages in Brazil, Colombia, and Ukraine / Bridget A. Goodman and others

The symbolic power of written language in the Andes / Juan C. Godenzzi

Understanding linguistic prejudice through linguistic landscapes / Dariush Izadi

Language, religious determinism, and prejudice in digital spaces : Historical antecedents of colonialism / Shaila Sultana

The representation of minority people in Kazakhstan school textbooks : The invisible 130 / Juldyz Smagulova and Karina Narymbetova

Vulnerability to raciolinguistic ideologies within the language teaching profession : From prejudice to discrimination / Vander Tavares and Sílvia Melo‑Pfeifer

Culturally and linguistically diverse language learners in the Australian education system / Carly Steele and others

Demystifying linguistic prejudice and discrimination in standard language ideology : Towards decolonizing language education / Yidie Xu and Fan Fang

Language, (de)colonization, and the curriculum / Clara Vaz Bauler and Ian Cushing

Language guidelines as the frontier of anti‑prejudicial prescriptivism / Beth Malory

Combatting inequalities of multilingualism online / Ruanni Tupas

Tackling linguistic prejudice through public dialogue : The Accentism Project and *Accentricity* podcast / Rob Drummond and Sadie Ryan

Twitter as an online counter‑pedagogy to linguistic prejudice / Vijay A. Ramjattan

Linguistic prejudice in academia : The case of English for publication purposes from an interdisciplinary angle / Josep Soler and Sergi Morales‑Gálvez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on January 28, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Oxford handbook of language and prejudice

ISBN:

9780191965296

0191965294

9780192695895

0192695894

9780192695888

0192695886

OCLC:

1532410698

Publisher Number:

CIPO000204727

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license