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Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires. XochitlMarsilli‐Vargas (Ed.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. xii+233 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jeremy A. Rud
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Texting, teens, and parental challenges in practices of family socialization Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Andreas Candefors Stæhr
This article examines how parent–teen texting enables family members to construct family relations and negotiate behavioral and communicative norms while being apart. The analyses of family texting focus on how teenagers and parents deal with issues of teenage independence and how this involves situated negotiations of teenagers being constructed as either able or unable to live up to family norms
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Metapolitical seduction: Women's language and white nationalism Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Catherine Tebaldi
This paper examines the enregisterment of white nationalist women's language as metapolitical seduction, in anti‐feminist conversion videos designed both to seduce men and to restore them to their proper place—above women. First, the paper analyzes the metapragmatics of submissive femininity, then the characters this far right fairy tale invents, and finally how they come to represent a metapolitical
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What to make of a Sultan's tear: Phaticity, praise poetry, and social infrastructures in the Sultanate of Oman Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Bradford Garvey
The distributive political economy of contemporary Arab Oman yields a status‐differentiated social infrastructure composed of elites who distribute and non‐elites who, in many ways, rely on those distributions. The construction of communicative links within social infrastructures via the performance of sung poetry depends on the phaticity of the link being activated. For Omani poets, different linguistic
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Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jessica R. Greenberg
This article analyzes institutions as sites for political and social change by looking beyond regimentation and fixedness as the central discursive features of institutionalization. Drawing on research at the European Court of Human Rights—one of the world's most extensive human rights courts—I analyze how human rights actors redeploy normative institutional logics through creative approaches to institutional
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How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Jack Sidnell
Hồ Chí Minh's extended essay Fixing the Way We Work, written in 1947 after he and other high-ranking members of the recently formed DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), had been forced to retreat from Hanoi to the uplands of Thái Nguyên province, elaborates on organizational and practical problems within the party and obstacles to mass mobilization. The final chapter describes
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Affect in cross-chronotope alignments in narrations about Aristides de Sousa Mendes and their subsequent circulations Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Michele Koven
This article analyzes the role of emotion in narrations about the past, understandable as familial, intergenerational, or national. I examine how participants report and display affect in narratives about Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul of Bordeaux who issued thousands of lifesaving visas in June of 1940. Three sets of participants (descendants of visa recipients, Sousa Mendes' descendants
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Transposition, not translation: Recuperating attentionality on Pantelleria, Sicily Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Nicco A. La Mattina
This article examines how elderly rural Sicilians recall the meanings of words rendered obsolete by infrastructural, technological, and economic changes that occurred in their lifetime. I examine conversations from my 2016 and 2019 fieldwork on Pantelleria, Sicily, characterized by what I term recuperated attentionality, speaking from erstwhile attentional circumstances. To unpack the meanings of words
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Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Bina Brody
This article explores the term “sunu coosan” as a Senegalese trope of self-articulation and as a semiotic strategy in contemporary discourses surrounding nationhood. The term, meaning "our tradition" in Wolof, is used by professionals as well as lay people in their promotion of the national sport, Làmb wrestling. By examining this phrase within the broad repertoire of Senegalese wrestling songs, I
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The limits of thematization Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Charles H. P. Zuckerman, N. J. Enfield
A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the “Limits of Awareness,” set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' “awareness” of pragmatic forms and their corresponding capacity to talk about them. His notion of differential “awareness”
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If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Alessandro Duranti
Many of Heidegger’s statements about language should sound familiar to linguistic anthropologists, starting with the pragmatic-indexical functions of speaking (in Sein und Zeit) and continuing, in later years, with something resembling linguistic relativity. But a comparison of Heidegger’s ideas with those of some of his contemporaries who wrote about similar themes reveals that he had different goals
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Toward a non-binary semiotics of intersectionality: linguistic anthropology in the wake of coloniality Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Jay Ke-Schutte, Joshua Babcock
This special issue proposes a non-binary semiotics of intersectionality to both draw attention to and unsettle binary participation frameworks of “the-West-and-its-others.” Contributors demonstrate how intersectionality can reconfigure scholarly approaches to the semiotic analysis of social life, expanding the bounds of the ethnographic as both genre and site of ideological work while also suggesting
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Specters of excess: Passing and policing in the Malay-speaking archipelago Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Andrew M. Carruthers
Positioned at the island interface of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the east Malaysian state of Sabah bears witness to some of the largest clandestine cross-border flows across the globe. This article examines what a Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah has called “an insidious problem which has turned out to be an all-consuming nightmare.” It highlights the situated
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“RIP English”: Race, class and ‘good English’ in India Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Katy Highet
This article explores how metapragmatic discourses on “good” and “bad” English in India are mobilized in ways that allow actors to negotiate their status as English speakers. Adopting an intersectional framework that highlights the relationality of colonial, racialized, and classed claims to authority, the article shows how the co-naturalization of language and race shapes assessments of competency
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(Out)Caste language ideologies: Intersectional raciolinguistic stigma and assimilation from denotified tribal students' perspectives in rural India Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Jessica Chandras
In India, where elementary education is a fundamental right, significant barriers stall the attainment of educational equity through linguistic inclusivity. This article explores student identities by examining intersections of language, caste, race, and socioeconomic class to make visible complexities of privilege, discrimination, and connections between social structure, identity, and language in
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Echoes of “dead” colonialism: The voices and materiality of a (post)colonial Algerian newspaper Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Stephanie V. Love
Through the concept of the echo, this article examines how postcolonial Algerians discursively locate and orient themselves in relation to the materiality of “dead” colonialism, which I broadly define as the physical presence of objects, voices, and sensual qualities (accompanied by aesthetic, value, and moral judgments) that Algerians see as persisting from the colonial before. I argue that an echo
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The life of a political speech(writer): Metadiscursive text trajectories in high-end language work Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Gwynne Mapes
Following Thurlow's (2020b) understanding of “wordsmiths,” in this paper I document an underexplored and markedly high-end area of language work: political speechwriting. Drawing on Macgilchrist and Van Hout's (2011) text trajectory approach to ethnographic discourse analysis I engage with two primary areas of scholarship: metadiscourse and entextualization (see Silverstein and Urban 1996), both of
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The double bind of “Shame”: The colonial ramifications in Tahitian language revitalization Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Mai Misaki
This article discusses the multifaceted and shifting nature of “shame” (ha'amā) associated with Tahitian, one of the Indigenous languages of French Polynesia. Despite congregants at the Mā'ohi Protestant Church contesting the colonial degradation of Mā'ohi Indigeneity and promoting the spiritual significance of Indigenous languages, the idea of shame and awkwardness attached to speaking practices remains
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Language otherwise: Linguistic natures and the ontological challenge Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Jan David Hauck
Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language has been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating the two, interrogating what language is from ethnographic perspectives and extending the analytic focus to ontologies of language or linguistic natures
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Dispensing with Europe: A comparative linguistic anthropology of honorific pronouns Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Luke Fleming
The study of pronominal address in European languages is enriched by a comparative linguistic anthropology of honorific registers of person deixis. In European speech communities, token-sourced interdiscursivity plays a crucial role in framing the meaning of honorific (V) and nonhonorific (T) pronouns; the pronouns exchanged between members of an interlocutor dyad in a given discursive event presuppose
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Flânerie in Text and City: The Heterogeneous Urban Publics of the Georgian Feuilleton Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Paul Manning
The Georgian feuilleton developed in fits and starts in the first 5 years of the first Georgian newspaper, Droeba. The feuilleton is an exemplary genre in the development of Georgian publics, both urban and print. The digressive narrative of the feuilleton meanders between, ties together, and dialogizes the disembodied world of public texts and the embodied world of real public places, drawing together
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The Colonial Constitution of Poly as a Racial and Linguistic Category through Policing, Gentrification, and an Ideology of Oppressionlessness Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Casey Philip Wong
This article examines the historical, institutional, and interactional processes by which “Poly” (i.e., Polynesian) has come to be understood as a race and language within a context in the California Bay Area. Rather than understanding “races” as discrete categories—as well as sociolinguistic features as permanently attributable and patterned to specific racialized groups—I argue that racialization
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Oral English Proficiency Tests, Interpretive Labor, and the Neoliberal University Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Julia Nagai, Edwin K. Everhart
Tests of English proficiency for international graduate students at US universities are neoliberal institutions which make (mis)communication the responsibility of individual workers. While cloaking themselves in a discourse of linguistic expertise, they require test-takers to assimilate to white, upper class, American mannerisms. In this ethnographic study of two testing centers, we address their
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“We Explain”: Interaction and Becoming a Family in Migration Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Narges Ghandchi
This paper applies the lens of child language brokering to explore parent–child everyday interaction as an Afghan migrant family re-grounds itself in the new linguistic and social context of Denmark. Whereas brokering is often seen as children's translating, this ethnographic study shows that children contribute with explaining, rather than only translating. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic data
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The Cultural Logic of the Ordinary: Interactional Semiosis and the (Re)-Framing of Daily Life among Japanese Younger Adults Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Judit Kroo
This paper considers how Japanese futsuu “ordinary”-ness functions as a cultural logic that mediates aspirations and interpretations of a good life under conditions of socioeconomic risk and precarity. Invoking ordinariness can be a tactic for (re)-framing otherwise marginalized or marginalizing practices within the norm, shifting what counts as ordinary in the process, and pushing back against neoliberally
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Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions. RamptonBen. Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. vii + 302. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Moodjalin Sudcharoen
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“I Ain’t Even Gonna Cap to It”: Ethnography-as-Surveillance and Dark Sousveillance in the Classroom Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Justin Lance Pannell
This article theorizes classroom ethnography in the socio-historical context of the U.S. as a form of racialized surveillance which is calibrated by anti-Black colonial discourses, racially saturated perception, and one’s vulnerability to interpellation. Focusing on the interaction of “Dominic,” a Black focal student, which was documented through ethnographic fieldwork, I conduct a frame analysis to
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Marketing Logics and the Politics of Public Spheres: On Discursive Engineering and Enclosure Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Andrew Graan
Scholarship on publics has proliferated during the past two decades, especially in linguistic anthropology. Drawing on Michael Warner’s famous formulation, publics are now routinely theorized as a social form predicated on the reflexive circulation of discourse. This article, however, identifies a tension within Warner’s conception of publics. On the one hand, Warner levels a critique of liberal publicity
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Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom. GregNiedt, and Corinne A.Seals eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. xv + 264. + 264 pp. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Guangxiang Liu
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Shadows and Mirrors: Spatial and Ideological Perspectives on Sign Language Competency Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
In introducing the concept of “shadow conversations,” Judith T. Irvine (1996) sharpened our analytical understanding of instances in which conjectures about past and future moments in a chain of discourse events inform the distribution of participant roles in an unfolding interaction. Expanding upon this notion, this article considers how conversations that did or will not occur—or are imagined as
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Shadow Conversations and the Citational Practices of a Journal Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Sonia N. Das
Drawing on the resonances between Judith T. Irvine’s (1996) writings about “shadow conversations” and the broader linguistic anthropological literature on citational practices (Goodman et al. 2014; Nakassis 2013; Rhodes 2020), I explore how the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology has sought to and continues to engage with the politics of inclusion and diversity in the construction of disciplinary knowledge
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Securitizing Communication: On the Indeterminacy of Participant Roles in Online Journalism Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Francis Cody, Alejandro I. Paz
This article takes Judith T. Irvine’s insights about the indeterminacy of participant roles and interpretive frameworks to explore how the increased use of social media in journalism leads to new quandaries for political actors. The dialogics of distributing or amalgamating participant roles provide for a particularly tricky domain of maneuver for journalists in India and Israel, where rightwing leaders
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Structure, Ideology, Distribution: The Dual as Honorific in Santali Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Nishaant Choksi
This article draws on Judith T. Irvine's over two decades of work on ideologies of honorification to investigate and analyze the historical transformation of the use of the dual pronominal form in Santali, an Austro-Asiatic language spoken in eastern India. In Santali, the dual form is employed for single referents (both for the speaker and the addressee) during interactions restricted to affines of
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Reimagining Linguistic Heritage: Or How Mother Tongue Speakers Re-Create Their Language Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Sarah Marleen Hillewaert
In this article, I engage the “language as heritage” trope to critically examine a popular belief that underlies it: the idea that a shared language primordially connects an individual to a group of people, a homogenous culture and a particular territory—the notion of the ethnolinguistic group. Judith T. Irvine has long urged linguistic anthropologists to problematize the linguistic side of these classifications
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Scaling Language Boundaries: Inclusion, Commensurability, and a Caribbean Coloniality Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Janina Fenigsen
Drawing on ethnography as well as media and archival sources, this article approaches issues of language and relations of power in Barbados along ideological axes of civilization, modernity, and intelligence. Its particular focus is on the ideologies of social and language boundaries and the semiotic processes of their construction, navigation, and policing. I use the concept of commensurability to
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Memes, Emojis, and Text: The Semiotics of Differentiation in Sri Lankan Tamil Digital Publics Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Christina P. Davis
This article draws on Judith T. Irvine’s theorizing of the semiotic processes of differentiation to investigate how Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims configure similarity and difference in multimodal social media interactions. I analyze Facebook discussions around memes of Tamil-language blunders in trilingual public signs, which are widely taken to represent the incomplete implementation of Tamil as a
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Evolving Studies of Language Ideologies in Honor of Judith T. Irvine: A Commentary Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Susan U. Philips
This commentary discusses papers in a special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology in honor of Judith T. Irvine.
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Semiotic Disruption and Negotiations of Authenticity among Argentine Fans of Anglophone Media Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson
This paper investigates how subtitling and dubbing of foreign language media can be interpreted as cases of semiotic disruption, and how this interpretive frame comes to index a cosmopolitan identity among Argentine fans of Anglophone pop culture. The naturalization of voice/body/language assemblages allows fans to frame preferences for subtitles as an obvious consequence of “authentic” fan identity
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Language Activism: Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality. Haley DeKorne. Oslo, Norway: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. vi + 241 pp. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Samuel D. Meyer
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Sounds of Healing: Qualia and Medical Efficacy in a Traditional Korean Medicine Clinic Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Hyemin Lee
In traditional Korean medicine (TKM) clinics in South Korea, acupuncture is a popular therapeutic practice to remove physical discomforts. This paper examines the cultural-semiotic rendering of an abstract, kinesthetic quality called “shiwŏnham” into medical efficacy through acupuncture treatments, observed through ethnographic fieldwork in a TKM clinic. By employing the conceptual framework of qualia
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Revisiting Theory and Method in Language Ideology Research Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Judith T. Irvine
It is now some decades since the study of “linguistic ideology” was first proposed (Silverstein 1979), and the time is ripe for taking stock. This article considers some developments in this field as it has emerged and, in some respects, become normalized. Yet, normalized can mean backgrounded, taken for granted—perhaps obscuring important theoretical issues and methodological challenges. I revisit
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Postracial Policing, “Mother Tongue” Sourcing, and Images of Singlish Standard Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Joshua Babcock
After decades of denigration and targeting by the state, Singlish—or Singaporean Colloquial English—has come into its own as a “uniquely Singaporean” phenomenon (Wee 2018), both a source and site of projects of raciolinguistic value-creation (Rosa and Flores 2017). Today, Singlish is often presented as emblematic of broader “racial harmony” among Singapore’s four official races, yet it has also become
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Judith T. Irvine and the Social Life of Scholarship Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sonia N. Das,Christina P. Davis,Erika Hoffmann‐Dilloway
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His Master’s Voice, Her Jokes: Voice and Gender Politics in the Performance of Rakugo Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Esra-Gökçe Şahin
This article explores the role of voice and voicing as a gendered construct in the performance of rakugo in Japan. Rakugo is a traditional genre of comedic storytelling, performed by a single actor. The genre sets a nostalgic tone for the simplicity of life in preindustrial Tokyo, through portrayals of foolishness and mockery of various human situations. A great majority of the rakugo performers are
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Negotiating Linguistic Disruptions and Connections in Migratory Contexts: Language Practices among Child Migrants in an Urban Market in Ghana Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Gladys Nyarko Ansah
This article employs ethnographic methods to investigate communicative practices that shape the linguistic repertoires of child migrants in Agbogbloshie, an urban market in Ghana. Similar studies discuss the relationship between language and migration by focusing on language shift and loss among migrants; this article argues that migrants in complex linguistically diverse spaces—motivated by both social
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Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area. NathanBadenoch and NishaantChoksi, eds. Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. xiv + 329 pp. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Anvita Abbi
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Understanding Movement and Meaning in Janana Communities Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Ila Nagar
Janana is a word used to describe male presenting individuals who desire or have sex with men but who may also hold a heteronormatively masculine position within their communities. This article presents an interdisciplinary look at the janana body and explores movement as a way jananas form meaning alongside linguistic markers within their communities. I show that the rewards and risks associated with
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The Enregisterment of Esh in Global Beatboxing Culture Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Jaspal Naveel Singh, Cameron Martin Campbell
Esh is an emblematic word and sound in global beatboxing culture. It may have developed from the vocal mimicry of a sound of a snare drum or it may have derived from multicultural youth slang in France. What is clear is that esh is now widely recognized and used as a lexicalized sound to humorously index cultural identity alignments, for example taking a stance of affirmative evaluation, greeting and
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Communication in Persons with Acquired Speech Impairment: The Role of Family as Language Brokers Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Gema Rubio-Carbonero
More than 170 million people in the world have some kind of speech impairment. The lack of professional interpreters in this domain causes their families to need to learn new communicative strategies to interact with them and assist them as interpreters. The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of these non-professional interpreters for adults with a speech impairment caused by an acquired brain
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Feeling to Learn: Ideologies of Race, Aurality, and Manouche Music Pedagogy in France Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Siv B. Lie
This article explores how music professionals promote interdiscursive oppositions between musical aurality and musical literacy to unsettle the terms of their racialization. For many French Manouches (a subgroup of Romanies/“Gypsies”), music is a source of pride, profit, and public recognition. Manouche musicians often valorize their own sensorially centered pedagogical approaches in distinction to
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Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge. Charles L.Briggs. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2021. x + 336 pp. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Steven P. Black
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Introduction: Language and White Supremacy Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Krystal A. Smalls, Arthur K. Spears, Jonathan Rosa
The introduction to this special issue frames White supremacy as a central concern within linguistic anthropology, both as a focus of analysis and as a power structure that has profoundly shaped the field’s logics and demographics. We emphasize how carefully attending to language, discourse, and signs can productively illuminate White supremacy’s slippery logics, organizing principles, dynamic infrastructures
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White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Arthur K. Spears
Our goal in understanding white supremacy should be theory building, viewed as instrumental in providing explanation and prediction as a foundation for activism. As humanists and social scientists, and more particularly as anthropologists and linguistic anthropologists, we should take to heart not only anthropology’s mandate to be holistic, comparative, and historical but also the tradition of anthropological
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Covert Linguistic Racisms and the (Re-)Production of White Supremacy Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Paul V. Kroskrity
This article explores the potent role of covert linguistic racisms as practices critical for maintenance and transmission of white supremacy (Spears 1999, 2020). Though most Whites benefit from the structural violence of white supremacy, many disclaim their belief in racial hierarchies or participation in racist projects. Though they reject overt racism, they are more open to the effects of covert
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“Kom Khoi San, kry trug jou land”: Disrupting White Settler Colonial Logics of Language, Race, and Land with Afrikaaps Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 H. Samy Alim, Quentin E. Williams, Adam Haupt, Emile Jansen
This article offers a broad and deep discussion of critical issues in the study of language, race, and political economy through an analysis of the verbal art, aesthetics, and performances of South African hip hop artists. In particular, we present an in-depth analysis of the Afrikaaps language movement in Cape Town, South Africa and theorize the language-race-land complex , the range of issues with
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Toward an Anti-Racist Linguistic Anthropology: An Indigenous Response to White Supremacy Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Wesley Y. Leonard
Drawing from my lived experiences as an Indigenous linguist, this article exposes and responds to epistemological racism (Kubota 2020) in the discipline of Linguistic Anthropology, which I argue institutionalizes and reproduces white supremacy. I extend Rosa and Flores’s (2017) raciolinguistic perspective, which examines the co-naturalization of race and language, to the co-naturalization of race and
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White Allies and the Semiotics of Wokeness: Raciolinguistic Chronotopes of White Virtue on Facebook Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (IF 0.939) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Jennifer B. Delfino
This study examines how the figure of the white ally is constructed on Facebook via raciolinguistic chronotopes of “white virtue,” which is the idea that whites who can identify racism are good people who cannot themselves be racist. Using data I collected from a public group called “White People ACTING for Change!” (WPAC) I use semiotic discourse analysis to highlight how participants produce histories