Language and Discrimination

ISBN-13: 9780582552654 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 08/10/1992 Series: Applied Linguistics and Language Study Edition description: New Edition Pages: 440 Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of how language functions as a means of indirect racial discrimination must be founded on an expanded view of language which recognises the inseparability of language, culture and meaning.After initially introducing the subject matter of the book and providing an overview of discrimination and language learning, the authors examine the relationship between theory and practice in four main areas: theories of interaction and their application; ethnographic and linguistic analysis of