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Hospitable Linguistics

Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters
Buch | Hardcover
350 Seiten
2025
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78892-987-5 (ISBN)
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Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a ‘hospitable linguistics’. It represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics.
Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a ‘hospitable linguistics’. It offers a critical discussion of how linguistics endeavors to domesticate, subdue and integrate both people and languages into existing academic structures and theories, and how as a discipline academic linguistics has barely begun to move beyond its colonial, patriarchal and conservative foundations. In this book, leading figures in their fields reflect on their own and others’ practices and experiences in three key areas: the agency and power of refugees and migrants; Indigenous people’s (in)hospitable responses to strangers; and hospitable language as expressed through art, music and artefacts. As a whole, the book represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a new, more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics that makes way for the ideas of people who are often the object of study. 

Nicholas G. Faraclas is Full Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico. His research focuses on language and power, language and the colonial construction of race, gender and class, linguistic contact and hybridity, indigeneity and linguistic sovereignty, critical literacy and popular education, and the linguistic and cultural repertoires of the Afro-Atlantic and Melanesia. Anne Storch is Full Professor in Afrikanistik / African Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research focuses on linguistic manipulation and marginalized languages, linguistic typology, colonial linguistics and anthropological linguistics. Viveka Velupillai is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English at the University of Giessen, Germany and Visiting Professor at the Language Sciences Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Her research focuses on linguistic typology, language contact and historical linguistics, Creoles and marginalized languages.

Tables and Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements



Sinfree Makoni: Foreword



Chapter 1. Anne Storch and Nicholas Faraclas: Introduction           



Part 1: Language As a Gift



Chapter 2. Anne Storch: Sunset at a Place Visited for No Ordinary Reason



Chapter 3. Arpad Szakolczai: The Decline of Hospitality and the Rise of Linguistic Imperialism



Chapter 4. Judith A. Mgbemena: Linguistics and Nigerian Language Studies in Nigeria: Building Bridges for a More Viable and Hospitable Linguistics



Chapter 5. Ian Hancock: The Trans-Atlantic Shipment of Gypsies/Romanies to the Americas: Discursive Silencing, Erasure and Inhospitableness



Chapter 6. Renathe Meroro-Tjikundi and Anette Hoffmann: (Not) Speaking to a German Africanist in Namibia in 1954: On Refusal and Hospitality as Responses to Linguistic Research



Chapter 7. Fiona Mc Laughlin: The Pew Inscriptions at First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia



Part 2: Language and Sharing



Chapter 8. Charleston Thomas: The Art and Role of Listening and Verbal Gestures in Tobagonian: Returning to the Oral/Aural



Chapter 9. Dannabang Kuwabong: Dagaaba Travel Experience Names



Chapter 10. Federico Olivieri: La carta que te escribo sobre festivales de cine y hospitalidad



Chapter 11. Priya Parrotta: 'Paradise', 'Hospitality', and the Transformative Power of Environmental Music: When the Island Sings



Chapter 12. Melinda Maxwell-Gibb: Pluri-living in the 'In' Hospitable Deep South of the US



Part 3: Language, Resisting and Undoing Enclosures



Chapter 13. Alison Rendall: Shetland Stories in Knitting



Chapter 14. Andrea Hollington: The Fieldworker as a Human Being



Chapter 15. Fatou Cissé Kane: Resistance et Hospitalité 



Chapter 16. Ellen Hurst-Harosh and Fridah Kanana Erastus: Pastiche: A Conversation Between Kenyan Sheng and South African Tsotsitaal Youth Language Speakers



Chapter 17. Nalini Natarajan: Women: The Hospitable 'Race' who were 'Already There'



Chapter 18. Alison Phipps: On Strike on Mother Language Day: Critical Reflections, Toilet Signs and Language Geneaologies



Part 4: Language and Reassuming Sovereignty



Chapter 19. Angelika Mietzner: Narratives of Reciprocity and Envy in a Digo Community in Tiwi, Kenya



Chapter 20. Meg Rodger: Auծur the Deep Minded



Chapter 21. Penelope Allsobrook: Childhood Memories and the Call to Being Hospitable in the Bar’chu, the Bell and the Bilal



Chapter 22. Ragnhild Ljosland: Giving Voice to the Witches of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials: ‘Answered, She Spoke it for Weakness of Her Owne Flesh, and for Feare of Her Lyfe’



Chapter 23. Alison Phipps: A World Glasgow Minding on the International Day of Peace



Jan Knipping and Nico Nassenstein: Afterword: Hospitable Linguistics – Thoughts on Current Directions



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.3.2025
Reihe/Serie Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 245 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-78892-987-X / 178892987X
ISBN-13 978-1-78892-987-5 / 9781788929875
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