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Kathryn A. Woolard
Publications - 12
Citations - 1487
Kathryn A. Woolard is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ideology & Systematic ideology. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1436 citations.
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Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
TL;DR: The authors examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and the relationships between them, linking language to larger issues of identity, aesthetics, morality, and epistemology.
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Constructing languages and publics: Authoriy and representation
Susan Gal,Kathryn A. Woolard +1 more
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Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and use it to illuminate the politics of language in Catalonia, where Catalan jostles with Castilian for legitimacy, arguing that there is an ongoing shift at both public and personal levels away from the ethnolinguistic authenticity that powered relations in the early transition to political autonomy, and toward new discourses of anonymity, rooted cosmopolitanism, and authenticity understood as a project rather than an essence.
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Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority
Susan Gal,Kathryn A. Woolard +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes and examine empirical cases ranging from small-scale societies to multi-ethnic empire, from nineteenth-century linguistic theories to contemporary mass media and from Europe to Oceania to the Americas.