Redoing Linguistic Worlds

Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

Kris Aric Knisely, Eric Louis Russell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2024
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-80041-508-9 (ISBN)

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This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender.

Language and gender are interconnected, social and relational acts through which we constantly remake our worlds. But what happens when our ways of doing gender cannot be neatly categorized into traditional binary systems, including not only the social groupings of roles, practices and identities, but also the forms and structures through which we do language? This book brings together a broad range of scholars to explore the undoing and redoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, in and through their linguistic and social reimaginings. Each of the contributions to this book reflects on this ongoing change and its place in our everyday lives, including the ways that its outcomes are both contested and fluid. This volume represents an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that stands to inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings and one that calls on all of us to stand in the tensions of our own humanity and look through it for how our languaging might ‘do’ imaginary worlds that are more equitable, more connected, and more just for us all.

Kris Aric Knisely is Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence in the Department of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching PhD program as well as in the Trans Studies Research Cluster at the University of Arizona. Knisely’s research focuses on gender justice in language education and research. Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in both the Linguistics and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies departments at the University of California, Davis. His research considers contemporary Italian, French, Dutch and English linguacultures, asking how gender and gender expression, masculinities, power, authority and hegemonies are realized and disrupted through languaging and discursive activity.

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Series Editors' Preface

Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell: Introduction: Redoing Linguistic Worlds

Part 1: Languagers and Genderers

Chapter 1. Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell: Languagers and Genderers: A Guide to Redoing Linguistic Worlds

Part 2: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities in the Classroom

Chapter 2. Kris Aric Knisely: Not Another Binary: Gender Modality, Languaging and Language Learning in French

Chapter 3. Maureen O. Gallagher (she), Simone Pfleger (they), Angineh Djavadghazaryans (she), Brigetta (Britt) Abel (she) and Faye Stewart (she): Gender Plurality in the German-Language Classroom: Constructing Linguistic and Cultural Identities Beyond Binaries

Chapter 4. Lindsay D. Preseau, LeAnne Spino and Niko Tracksdorf: Gender Inclusivity Across the Curriculum: An Exploration of Novice and Advanced Course Content through Student Perspectives

Part 3: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities in Sociolinguistic Space

Chapter 5. Maxen Jack-Monroe: Beyond il or elle and femme or homme: How Non-Binary Montréalers Navigate French

Chapter 6. Jennifer Kaplan: The Social Life of Non-Binary French: How Non-Binary Francophones Linguistically Navigate Institutions

Chapter 7. Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley and Alba Arias Álvarez: Remaking Spanish Gender Binaries: Online Attitudes Toward Gender Pluralities

Part 4: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities as Resistance and Social Change

Chapter 8. Michael Barnes: 'Estamos pavimentando el camino para futuros hablantes del castellano': Nonbinary Peninsular Spanish Languaging as Prefigurative Politics

Chapter 9. Ben Papadopoulos: Identifying Gender in Gendered Languages: The Case of Spanish

Chapter 10. Eric Louis Russell: Ciro è morto o morta? Symbolic Power and Discursive Effablity

Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell: Redoing and Undoing: When a Conclusion Is Just the Beginning

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80041-508-7 / 1800415087
ISBN-13	978-1-80041-508-9 / 9781800415089
Zustand	Neuware