Writing & Rhetoric

A brief position statement, including a video, with resources provided from Royal Roads University.

A visual essay that states it draws on "2011 data from UNESCO via the Guardian."

From the "About Us" page: "The Endangered Languages Project (ELP) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization supporting the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world. ELP brings people together across borders and boundaries to address the urgent issue of language endangerment. "

Claim: "Speaking more than one language not only improves brain functionality, but helps English language learners become proficient in English."
Alvarez, Brenda. "Linguistic Discrimination Still Lingers in Many Classrooms." ( May 19, 2020). neaToday. https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/linguistic-discrimination-still-lingers-many-classrooms

The mission statement reads: "Our mission is to ensure language survival for generations to come. We support speakers who are safeguarding their languages from extinction through activism, education, and technology. Our research teams document endangered languages and cultural practices, publish scientific studies, run digital training workshops to empower language activists, and collaborate with communities to create language resources that will serve as a basis for language revitalization. We are funded by grants and donations."

A listing of a handful of resources compiled and shared by the Hacherl Research & Writing Studio.

From a LibGuide of the School of Visual Arts Library. Includes resources compiled for curricular support for courses that "center language and culture in creative practice, aiming for. . . exchange of strategies and resources across borders."

This guide from Stony Brook University's Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication includes resources for use "as a teacher;" "as a scholar;" and "as a world. . . citizen."

A compilation of online resources shared via Racial Equity Tools.

Per the about page: "The Language of Justice Project is a multimedia oral history project organized by Allison Corbett, dedicated to the celebration of multilingual spaces and the people who create and maintain them. " Also links to additional resources. Available in English and Spanish.

Description begins: "Across the Disciplines, a refereed journal devoted to language, learning, and academic writing, publishes articles relevant to writing and writing pedagogy in all their intellectual, political, social, and technological complexity. "

Per the "About" page: "The Deaf Studies Digital Journal (also known as DSDJ) is the world’s first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the cultural, creative, and critical output of published work in and about sign languages and Deaf culture. "

Website description states: "The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world."

Roche, Gerald. “Articulating Language Oppression: Colonialism, Coloniality and the Erasure of Tibet’s Minority Languages.” Patterns of Prejudice 53, no. 5 (2019): 487–514. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2019.1662074.

Talamantes, Maria Del Rosario. “A Critical Classroom Study of Language Oppression: Manuel and Malena’s Testimonios, ‘Sentía Como Que Yo No Valía Nada . . . Se Reían de Mí.’” Journal of Latinos and Education 22, no. 3 (2023): 926–47. doi:10.1080/15348431.2021.1880412.

Tai, Kevin W H, and Li Wei. “Constructing Playful Talk through Translanguaging in English Medium Instruction Mathematics Classrooms.” Applied Linguistics 42, no. 4 (2021): 607–40. doi:10.1093/applin/amaa043.

Rusho, Dima. “First Nations Interpreters Cannot Be Neutral and Should Not Be Invisible.” The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research 15, no. 1 (2023): 120–34. doi:10.12807/ti.115201.2023.a06.

Kanobana, Sibo Rugwiza. “How the Flemings Became White: Race, Language, and Colonialism in the Making of Flanders.” Dutch Crossing 46, no. 3 (2022): 259–73. doi:10.1080/03096564.2022.2144606.

Wei, Li, and Ofelia García. “Not a First Language but One Repertoire: Translanguaging as a Decolonizing Project.” RELC Journal 53, no. 2 (2022): 313–24. doi:10.1177/00336882221092841.

Dubinsky, Stanley, and Harvey Starr. “Weaponizing Language: Linguistic Vectors of Ethnic Oppression.” Global Studies Quarterly 2, no. 2 (2022). doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksab051.

Journal description includes: "American Speech is concerned principally with the English language in the Western Hemisphere, although articles dealing with English in other parts of the world, the influence of other languages by or on English, and linguistic theory are also published."
Note that the most recent editions are available via Project MUSE.

Description States: "Dedicated to the range of professional practices associated with rhetoric & composition. Teaching college writing, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars."

Per the description, "special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law."

Description, in part, states: "It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand."

From the description: "First Language is a forum for research into how children acquire their first language, and the application of that research into practice."

From the journal: "Language in Society is an international journal of sociolinguistics concerned with language and discourse as aspects of social life. "

"Peer reviewed coverage of multidisciplinary research on language and society."

Dillon, Anna. “An Exploration of Linguistic Neo-Colonialism through Educational Language Policy--An Irish Perspective.” Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 14, no. 3 (2016): 97.

Bonotti, Matteo, Nina Carlsson, and Colin W Rowe. “Introduction: Linguistic Justice, Migration and the Nation‐state.” Nations and Nationalism 28, no. 2 (2022): 379–86. doi:10.1111/nana.12793.

Penfield, Susan D, and Benjamin V Tucker. “From Documenting to Revitalizing an Endangered Language: Where Do Applied Linguists Fit?” Language and Education 25, no. 4 (2011): 291–305. doi:10.1080/09500782.2011.577219.

Available through EBSCO's Business Source Premier, with UWS credentials.
Back, Hilla, and Rebecca Piekkari. “Language-Based Discrimination in Multilingual Organizations: A Comparative Study of Migrant Professionals’ Experiences across Physical and Virtual Spaces.” Journal of World Business 59, no. 3, April 1, 2024. N.PAG. doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101518.

Woolard, Kathryn A, and Bambi B Schieffelin. “Language Ideology.” Annual Review of Anthropology 23, no. 1 (1994): 55–82. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.23.100194.000415.

Peake, Bryce. “Listening, Language, and Colonialism on Main Street, Gibraltar.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (2012): 171–90. doi:10.1080/14791420.2012.663094.

Horner, Bruce, et al. "Opinion: Language Difference in Writing--Toward a Translingual Approach." College English, vol. 73, no. 3, 2011, pp. 303-321. doi:10.58680/ce201113403.

Zhang-Wu, Qianqian. “Rethinking Translingualism in College Composition Classrooms: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Multilingual Students’ Written Communication Across Contexts.” Written Communication 40, no. 1 (2023): 145–74. doi:10.1177/07410883221127208.

The Book itself is available through Resource Sharing/Interlibrary Loan
Griffith, Jane. “Jane Griffith, 2019. Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 61 (2023): 195–98. doi:10.3138/ijcs-2022-0011.