Sally Johnson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sally Johnson plays a role.
Articles
2008 Language politics and legitimation crisis in Sweden: A Habermasian approach Language Problems and Language Planning 32:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
Since the late 1990s the question of whether to ratify the status of Swedish as the “principal” language of Sweden by means of a language law has been subject to considerable public dispute. Drawing on Blommaert’s concept of a “language ideological debate,” we explore how and why this particular… read more
2001 (Il)literacy and (im)morality in Bernhard Schlink’s The reader Written Language & Literacy 4:2, pp. 195–214 | Article
This paper explores the theme of literacy in a recent novel, The reader, by the German author Bernhard Schlink. Drawing both on literary analysis and on the insights of the “new literacy studies”, the paper argues that the depiction of illiteracy contained in the novel is problematical in two main… read more