Hospitable Linguistics

Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78892-969-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faraclas, Nicholas G.

Storch, Anne

Velupillai, Viveka

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Romanies ('Gypsies') 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

Über Autor(innen)

Storch, Anne
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.

Faraclas, Nicholas G.
Dr Nicholas Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.  Having received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, he has taught courses and published many books and numerous articles in the areas of theoretical, descriptive, socio-, and applied linguistics.  Over the past four decades, he has been conducting research on postcolonial linguistics and creole languages as well as promoting community based literacy activities in Africa, the South Pacific, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.

Velupillai, Viveka
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.

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.