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DLP

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A social justice and research initiative to make scholarship on the politics of language available in public high schools.

demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/
Joined August 2024
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When we watch animated Disney films like Peter Pan or Pocahontas, they seem like regular children’s movies. Nothing could be harmful about them, right? Wrong! Read more to find out why.
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Hey! Wanna know WHO is publishing with the DLP??? Get the FULL LIST IN THIS VIDEO!! Stayed tuned for updates! -@MikeMenaNYC
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NEW DLP ARTICLE RELEASE!!! Check out Nelson Flores & Jonathan Rosa's game-changing article, Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem, with students Ashira Fischer-Wachspress and Nicolle Jimenez.
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NEW ARTICLE RELEASE! "Undoing Appropriateness" by Flores and Rosa (2015) is now available for both high school and undergrad readers! Now this crucial article can be shared to 1000's of new readers like never before! DIRECT LINK: demystifyinglanguage.fordham…
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To find out more about the DLP goals and theory, stop by tomorrow! Online and In-person!
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The DLP is thrilled to publish a new article by Martha Sif Karrebaek with Heather Flores-Mejia and Evan Owens on language, food and inequalities. Check it out at demystifyinglanguage.fordham…!
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We are the Demystifying Language Project! We are a group of educators trying to make a difference by taking complex scholarship and rewriting - that is, "transposing" - the original text into everyday, regular-people language for HIGH SCHOOLERS!
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We will be releasing new publications regularly over the next few months - each tackling a complex intersectional experience with language. No kiddy-gloves here! Just depth and nuance - exactly what our students deserve in these trying times! WEBSITE: demystifyinglanguage.fordham…
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Check out great new @demystifylang article from Ariana Mangual Figueroa written with @BronxdaleHS and @FordhamNYC students.
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ALT Picture of three authors smiling and looking at camera with arms around one another advertising article Speech or Silence and link to find the article on demystifying language website.

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Welcome ALL! We are the DLP, releasing an academic article each month that is transposed into "everyday language"! Each article was written in collaboration with high school students! Check out the results of our new innovative approach! ARTICLE LINK: demystifyinglanguage.fordham…
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THIS MONTH we are featuring Ariana Mangual Figueroa's work, "Speech or Silence". All articles take a linguistic issue and is approached with deep nuance, but usually without the burden specialist jargon! (Unless that big word has a purpose!)
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We got huge plans with tons of HUGE AUTHORS participating! Household names we all know in the fields of ling, ling anthro, and Socioling! EVERY MONTH we will releasing articles and teaser videos, this is a LONG TERM INITIATIVE. So give us a follow, and we will be in touch!
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