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Metalinguistic Communities (eBook, PDF)

Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of Language

Redaktion: Avineri, Netta; Harasta, Jesse

Beschreibung

This edited volume brings together ten compelling ethnographic case studies from a range of global settings to explore how people build metalinguistic communities defined not by use of a language, but primarily by language ideologies and symbolic practices about the language. The authors examine themes of agency, belonging, negotiating hegemony, and combating cultural erasure and genocide in cultivating meaningful metalinguistic communities. Case studies include Spanish and Hebrew in the USA, Kurdish in Japan, Pataxó Hãhãhãe in Brazil, and Gallo in France. The afterword, by Wesley L. Leonard, provides theoretical and on-the-ground context as well as a forward-looking focus on metalinguistic futurities. This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary students and scholars in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology and migration studies.

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Autor

Netta Avineri is an Associate Professor of Language Teacher Education and Chair of the Intercultural Competence Committee at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA. An applied linguistic anthropologist, she is the author of Research Methods for Language Teach ing: Inquiry, Process, and Synthesis, co-editor of Language and Social Justice in Practice, and Series Editor for Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton). Jesse Harasta is an Associate Professor of Social Science and program director for International Studies at Cazenovia College, USA.  A cultural and linguistic anthropologist, he studies the symbolic and political uses of language and language as an object (e.g. signage, font).  He researches Kernewek and other European lesser-used languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030769000
• Artikelnr.: 62641214

Rezensionen

"This volume offers both insider and outsider perspectives about metalinguistic communities, using concepts such as linguistic objectification, ethnolinguistic infusion, linguistic reindigenization, nostalgia socialization, and raciolinguistics, among others, by which speakers of minoritized languages show enthusiasm for their language and differentiate themselves from outsiders, and how outsiders differentiate against insiders-thus foregrounding speakers' agency. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, and anyone working on language revitalization and second language acquisition will find the volume helpful." (Olamide Eniola, Language in Society, Vol. 52 (5), 2023)