{"product_id":"linguistic-disobedience-restoring-power-to-civic-language-paperback","title":"Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYuliya Komska\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Moyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Gramling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book asks how we--as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers--can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers, \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Disobedience\u003c\/i\u003e recalls ages and situations that made critiquing, correcting, and caring for language essential for survival. From turn-of-the-twentieth-century Central Europe to the miseries of the Third Reich, from the Movement for Black Lives to the ongoing effort to decolonize African languages, the study and practice of linguistic disobedience have been crucial. But what are we to do today, when reactionary supremacists and authoritarians are screen-testing their own forms of so-called disobedience to quash oppositional social justice movements and their languages? Blending lyric essay with cultural criticism, historical analysis, and applied linguistics, \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Disobedience\u003c\/i\u003e offers suggestions for a hopeful pathway forward in violent times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book asks how we--as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers--can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers, \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Disobedience\u003c\/i\u003e recalls ages and situations that made critiquing, correcting, and caring for language essential for survival. From turn-of-the-twentieth-century Central Europe to the miseries of the Third Reich, from the Movement for Black Lives to the ongoing effort to decolonize African languages, the study and practice of linguistic disobedience have been crucial. But what are we to do today, when reactionary supremacists and authoritarians are screen-testing their own forms of so-called disobedience to quash oppositional social justice movements and their languages? Blending lyric essay with cultural criticism, historical analysis, and applied linguistics, \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Disobedience\u003c\/i\u003e offers suggestions for a hopeful pathway forward in violent times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuliya Komska is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College, USA. She wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Icon Curtain: The Cold War's Quiet Border\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and co-edited, with Irene Kacandes, \u003ci\u003eEastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries \u003c\/i\u003e(2017).\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Moyd is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003cbr\u003eDavid Gramling is Associate Professor of German Studies and Second Language Acquisition \u0026amp; Teaching at the University of Arizona, USA. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Monolingualism \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) received the American Association for Applied Linguistics book award for 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 175\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51794057920800,"sku":"9783319920092","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8927452bffdbf679137762c12429568a.webp?v=1780727314","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/linguistic-disobedience-restoring-power-to-civic-language-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}