Pronouns and social justice in the linguistics classroom Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractMy introductory Linguistics course was for many years shaped by the field’s distaste for social justice issues such as cisheterosexism, racism, colonialism and ableism. Like many other linguists, I concentrated my teaching on the core formal subfields. This essay considers how the colonial roots of Linguistics have shaped the field and my teaching, and reflects on my efforts to integrate social justice concerns into my teaching, using the changing grammar of non-binary pronouns as one entry point.

authors

• Anderson, Catherine

status

• published 

publication date

• August 4, 2022

has subject area

• 2004 Linguistics (FoR)

published in

• Journal of Language and Sexuality  Journal

keywords

• Communication
• GENDER
• LANGUAGE
• Language & Linguistics
• Linguistics
• RACE
• Social Sciences
• introductory linguistics
• non-binary pronouns
• pedagogy
• singular they
• social justice

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1075/jls.20024.and

start page

• 251

end page

• 263

volume

• 11

issue

• 2