Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 An introduction to the weaponizing of language in the classroom and beyond -- Chapter 2 Language weaponization, missed opportunities, and transformational spaces in Bangladeshi English departments: A biographical perspective -- Chapter 3 Flipping the script: A collaborative autoethnography of agency and voices in the weaponization of bilingual education in Taiwan -- Chapter 4 The price we pay: An autobiographical dialogue of linguistic violence in the African diaspora -- Chapter 5 "That's easy": An analysis of speech acts in an instance of cross-cultural miscommunication -- Chapter 6 A critical look at 'Pato' y 'Maricón': Puerto Rican Gay teachers' interventions with homophobic language -- Chapter 7 The weaponization of Setswana: Implications for marginalized languages in Botswana -- Chapter 8 Using your own language against you: Spanish in U.S. classrooms -- Chapter 9 Banned books in K-12 classrooms: Weaponization of children and young adolescent literature -- Chapter 10 French variations and language weaponization in US higher education -- Chapter 11 Dismantling weaponizing language in teacher preparation programs -- Afterword: Language weaponization and its harm -- Editors -- Contributors -- Index