Language as Hope
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 August 2025
- ISBN 9781009306546
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages199 pages
- Size 229x152x11 mm
- Weight 297 g
- Language English 682
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Short description:
Drawing on ethnographic data, this book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic and feasibility of hope.
MoreLong description:
Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-&&&64257;rst century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
'Consider the variety of language-games we play: forming and testing hypotheses; making up stories; offending; humiliating ... hoping. This volume argues compellingly for the centrality of language in the study of hope. By focusing on those who dare to hope amidst all forms of contemporary violence, it will certainly provide deep sources of inspiration to imagine new paths forward.' Branca Falabella Fabr&&&237;cio, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Table of Contents:
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Introduction; 1. Language as Hope; 2. 'Pa&&&237;s do Futuro' and Present-Day Communities of Hope; 3. Hope in the Present; 4. The Enregisterment of Hope; 5. Scaling Hope; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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