Kathryn Woolard: 2 books
Languages and Publics
The Making of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic...
Singular and Plural
Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn Woolard develops a framework...