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Important research by sociolinguists has shown us convincingly that those who speak in 'nonstandard' ways and those who speak a minority language are subjected to widespread discrimination. Notwithstanding this evidence, nonexpert populations do not adequately question the taken-forgranted status of language in everyday life. Unfortunately, discrimination based on language (often called by such terms as language subordination or linguicism) is an issue that does not garner the kind of attention that sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, etc., do in contemporary society. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas refers to linguicism as '[i]deologies, structures, and practices which are used to legitimate, effectuate, regulate, and reproduce social inequality on the basis of language' (Skutnabb- Kangas, 2000, p. 30). Rosina Lippi Green in her study on English 'with an accent' in America goes even further to define language subordination as 'taking away a basic human right ' (2011, p. 336). Many of these scholars have pointed out that there is a general 'reluctance to acknowledge language for the social construct that it is, and the repercussions of such resistance' (Lippi-Green, 2011, p. xxi). In the lig

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Author

Srilata Ravi

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences