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Metalinguistic communities : case studies of agency, ideology, and symbolic uses of language / Netta Avineri, Jesse Harasta, editors.

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 the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Avineri, Netta (Editor), Harasta, Jesse (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
Subjects:
Anthropological linguistics > Case studies.
Sociolinguistics > Case studies.
Applied linguistics > Case studies.
Anthropological linguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Exploring Agency, Ideology, and Semiotics of Language across Communities (Netta Avineri and Jesse Harasta)
  • Part 1: Language Defining Belonging
  • Chapter 2. Contested Hebrew: Ethnolinguistic Infusion and Metalinguistic Communities in U.S. Jewish Complementary Schools (Netta Avineri, Sarah Bunin Benor, and Nicki Greninger)
  • Chapter 3. "Anyone who speaks just a little bit of Nahuat knows she's only babbling..." Metapragmatic discourses on proficiency in the Nahuat language revitalization El Salvador (Quentin Boitel)
  • Chapter 4. Intimate Politics and Language Revitalization in Veneto, Northern Italy (Sabina Perrino)
  • Chapter 5.Metalinguistic discourse and Grenglish in narratives of return migration (Jennifer Sclafani and Alexander Nikolaou)
  • Part 2: Language as a Tool Against Erasure
  • Chapter 6. Where the Language Appears, We Also Appear: Tehuelche Language Reclamation in Patagonia (Javier Domingo)
  • Chapter 7. Utilization of Ethnolinguistic Infusion in the Construction of a Trifurcated Metalinguistic Community: An Example from the Kernewek (Cornish) language of Britain (Jesse Harasta)
  • Chapter 8. Retaking Hahahae: Revitalization and Reindigenization in a Context of Indigenous Erasure (Jessica Fae Nelson)
  • Part 3: Language Mediating Relations with the State
  • Chapter 9. I didn't know it was a language back then: The ideological value of recognition among Gallo advocates in Brittany (Sandra Keller)
  • Chapter 10. Raciolinguistic Ideologies of Spanish Speakers in a California Child Welfare Court (Jessica Lopez-Espino)
  • Chapter 11. The historical tie that binds: Deploying Kurdish to index ownership, authenticity, collective memory, and distinction within Kawaguchis Kurdish metalinguistic community (Anne Schluter)
  • Chapter 12. Reclamation and Metalinguistic Communities (Wesley Y. Leonard)

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