TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silva,Daniel N.
AU  - Lee,Jerry Won
TI  - Language as hope
SN  - 9781009306508 (ebook)
AV  - BF582 .S55 2024
U1  - 152.40981 23/eng/20230906
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language and emotions
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Hope
KW  - Portuguese language
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Open Access; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2024)
N2  - Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009306508
ER  -