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Price, Gareth – Language Policy, 2020
Transitional justice (TJ) scenarios are where a society is moving from war to peace or from authoritarianism to democracy. A key goal of TJ is to balance atoning for past abuses of human rights with creating the conditions for social and political stability in the future, and this requires avoiding forms of "victor's justice" whereby one…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Sociolinguistics
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Canagarajah, Suresh – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
The shifts underway in contemporary social conditions call for a new alignment between the specializations constituting English Studies: namely, literature, applied linguistics, and rhetoric and composition. Postcolonial social movements have generated new language, textual, and literary practices. These developments bring to the fore practices…
Descriptors: Social Change, Linguistic Borrowing, Specialization, Literature