Performative Linguistic Space: Ethnographies of Spatial Politics and Dynamic Linguistic Practices - Paperback

by Neriko Musha Doerr (Editor), Jennifer M. McGuire (Editor)

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This volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and linguistic communities associated with a specific space, this volume suggests a fluid productive aspect of space. It goes beyond the assumed space-linguistic community association through ethnographic accounts that mediate linguistic anthropology, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, and deaf studies.

Author Biography

Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA; Jennifer M. McGuire, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.