The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

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Cover The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society Copyright Dedication Contents List of Contributors Introduction—Language and Society: A Critical Poststructuralist Perspective 1. Language and Society: Historical Overview and the Emergence of a Field of Study 2. Language, Imperialism, and the Modern Nation-​State System: Implications for Language Rights 3. Language and Political Economy 4. Language and Power 5. Language Ideologies 6. Language Policy and Local Practices 7. Language, Migration, Diaspora: Challenging the Big Battalions of Groupism 8. Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization, and Superdiversity: Toward Sociolinguistic Repertoires 9. Diglossia and Beyond 10. Language Shift and Sustainability: Critical Discourses and Beyond 11. Discourses of Endangerment from Mother Tongues to Machine Readability 12. Sign Languages 13. Multiliteracies and Transcultural Education 14. Urban Languages in African Contexts: Toward a Multimodal Approach to Urban Languages 15. Indigenous Peoples and Their Languages 16. Entry Visa Denied: The Construction of Symbolic Language Borders in Educational Settings 17. Linguistic Profiling and Discrimination 18. From Elderspeak to Gerontolinguistics: Sociolinguistic Myths 19. Language and Racialization 20. Language and Sexuality 21. Linguistic Landscapes 22. Multimodality 23. The Internet, Language, and Virtual Interactions 24. Mediatization and the Language of Journalism 25. Work 26. Bilingual Education Conclusion: Moving the Study of Language and Society into the Future Index