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date: 04 March 2021

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Since emerging as a field of inquiry in the 1960s, sociolinguistics has focused on the interrelationship of language and society. But as it expanded, it did so primarily on the linguistic front. This volume builds on other attempts to reclaim the interdisciplinary nature of sociolinguistics by insisting that the interpenetration of language in society and society in language makes a division impossible. The title, Language AND Society, gives both parts equal footing, and use of the term sociolinguistics extends beyond linguistics and refers to the interdisciplinary enterprise that studies language and society. In addition to reclaiming the interdisciplinary roots of sociolinguistics, this Handbook seeks to move beyond the conceptual frameworks that informed twentieth-century sociolinguistics by including scholars from around the world, and to pass from original modernist and structuralist conceptualizations of language and of society into critical poststructuralist positions.

Keywords: critical poststructuralist sociolinguistics, language, poststructuralism, sociolinguistics, society

Ofelia García

Ofelia García is Professor in the PhD programs of Urban Education and of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has been Professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, Dean of the School of Education at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, and Professor at The City College of New York. At the time of this writing, she is also Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne. García has published widely in the areas of sociology of language, bilingual education and language policy. She is the General Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and the co-editor of Language Policy (with H. Kelly-Holmes). Among her best-known books are Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective; and Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Li Wei), which received the 2015 British Association of Applied Linguistics Award.

Nelson Flores

Nelson Flores is an Assistant Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. His research seeks to denaturalize dominant language ideologies that inform current conceptualizations of language education. This entails both historical analysis of the origins of current language ideologies and contemporary analysis examining how current language education policies and practices reproduce these language ideologies. His primary objective is to illustrate the ways that dominant language ideologies marginalize language-minoritized students and to develop alternative conceptualizations of language education that challenge their minoritization. His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Linguistics and Education, TESOL Quarterly, and Harvard Educational Review.

Massimiliano Spotti

Massimiliano Spotti is assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also deputy director of Babylon – Centre for the Study of Superdiversity at the same institution. His research tackles the theme of asylum seeking and identity construction through the analysis of social media influence on the doings of asylum seekers. He has published his work in several peer-reviewed journals including Linguistics and Education, Diversities, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Applied Linguistics Review as well as co-editor of the Volume Language and Superdiversity (Routledge 2016).

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