Dear colleagues, 

 

With apologies for cross-posting. 

We are delighted to announce the publication of Performative Linguistic Space: Ethnographies of Spatial Politics and Dynamic Linguistic Practices (2023), the third volume in the De Gruyter Mouton Anthropological Linguistic Series. As three of the five core chapters as well as the Afterword discuss Japanese society and language, we believe that this edited volume will be of interest to SSJ members. Details below.

Description: 

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.

 

Editors

Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College; Jennifer M. McGuire, Doshisha University

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Performative linguistic spaces that make utterances and signs (not) happen

Neriko Musha Doerr & Jennifer M. McGuire

Performative linguistic space of study abroad: Immersion discourse, short-term programs, colonial legacies, and US immigrant space

Neriko Musha Doerr

Languaging at an English-taught undergraduate program in Japan: Reconceptualizing spatial codes

Ngọc Anh Đỗ & Gregory S. Poole

Moving from physical to virtual learning spaces: Learning a foreign language during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Zoom classroom

Yuri Kumagai

 

Deaf in hearing spaces: Performative linguistic spaces shaped by audism, phonocentrism, and linguistic ideologies

Jennifer M. McGuire 

"It's only in retrospect that I can be really critical of it": Performative linguistic "safespaces" and becoming critical of volunteer tourism

Cori Jakubiak 

Afterword: Japanese loanwords in performative linguistic spaces

Laura Miller

Best wishes,

Jennifer McGuire & Neriko Musha Doerr

Jennifer M. McGuire (DPhil, Anthropology, Oxon)
Associate Professor | Institute for the Liberal Arts
Doshisha University
jmcguire@mail.doshisha.ac.jp