An open letter to the editors of the Journal of Language and Sexuality

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Lane
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Black Sexuality ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Black Life ◽  
Black Language ◽  
Culture And Language ◽  
Do So

Abstract In this open letter, I ask the editors of the Journal and its readers, to reflect on the Journal’s relationship to studies of language and Black sexuality, and consider new ways to reach scholars of Black life, culture, and language. Studies of Black language practices rarely deal with the ways that Black language practices are often complicated by gender/sexuality. And yet, there are scholars doing this work, but like Queer Linguistics, it often doesn’t “look” that way that typical studies of language are supposed to look. This is because linguistics and linguistic anthropology as disciplines have often failed to capture the imagination and attention of these scholars; it is not because studies of Black sexuality and language do not exist. I encourage the Journal then to seek out these studies and to do so with a sense of urgency.

“Pink Cheese, Green Ghosts, Cool Arrows/Pinches Gringos Culeros”

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-176
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
School Based ◽  
Do So

This chapter analyzes the multiple forms of stigmatization mapped onto students’ English and Spanish language practices and demonstrates some of the complex ways that they attempted to fashion linguistic escape routes from these discriminatory perspectives. Students felt pressured to signal their Spanish language proficiency, but they sought to do so without calling into question their ability to speak “unaccented” English; they were faced with the task of speaking Spanish and English simultaneously without being perceived as possessing an accent. The chapter argues that students combined specific Spanish and English linguistic forms as part of the enregisterment of language and identity in ways that differ from what has been previously described as “Mock Spanish.” This analysis introduces the notion of “Inverted Spanglish” and suggests that it is a racialized index of US Latinx panethnicity and a parodic take on the school-based category of “Young Latino Professional.”

Approaches to Black Language Studies

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy K. Williamson-Ige
Keyword(s):  
Language Studies ◽  
Black Language

scholarly journals La formación de la inteligencia a través de la literatura grecolatina y su pervivencia

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (278) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Arenal López ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin Literature ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Do So

Although the classical languages and literatures of Greece and Rome enjoy great prestige, they are increasingly neglected in mainstream curricula. This work aims to analyse the principal reasons behind this situation. To do so, it turns to the thoughts of different specialists who have considered the issue in depth. Their opinions cover a wide array of perspectives, but they all agree on one key point: the scant attention usually paid to texts in the teaching of Greco-Latin literature. Scholars have tended to focus on context, therefore obscuring the texts: they pay more attention to morphological, syntactic, historical, literary, and metric aspects than to the texts themselves. Means have thus become ends, with tangible and unfortunate consequences. As a solution to this, we propose returning the texts to the centre of the classroom, through reading —in full if possible— and discussion of the original works. This way, Greek and Latin language studies will achieve a greater relevance, precisely because they would allow a deeper and more direct knowledge of the classics.

scholarly journals Burial Practices Expose Identity Formation: Muerte y figura hasta la sepultura

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Tess Pantoja Perez ◽  
Josie Méndez-Negrete
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Primary Author ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
Culture And Language

 An examination of identity formation and its performative qualities or ways in which one enacts identity emerged as a result of a study of racially segregated cemeteries in a rural South Texas town, a practice that continues to dictate how burials are carried out, according to race. Fieldwork, archives, and pláticas, made visible the historical origins of funerary practices for the primary author—whose family lives in Nixon, Texas. Along with documenting funerary practices, this study explores the ways in which Pantoja Perez’s ancestors creatively camouflaged ethnicity to disidentify with their Mexican identity, in the context of an ideology of Americanization. It was found that cultural, as well as funerary practice veiled and protected Mexicans by class, thus not having to enact a racialized ethnicity while rejecting culture and language practices associated with being Mexican in public spaces.

Resignifications: Linguistic Resistance and Queer Expressions of Latinidad

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sebastian Ferrada
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Queer Communities ◽  
Racial Lines

The resignification of language practices among LGBTQIA+ communities has seen the reclamation of terms like queer, dyke, and faggot enter mainstream discourse. Marginalized communities who view the reclamation of language as a form of empowerment also have a long history of resignifying certain forms of pejorative language to revalorize meanings along ethnic and racial lines. This chapter provides an overview of contributions from queer theory, queer studies, and queer linguistics that center the reclamation of historically pejorative terms used for queer communities, but situates these queer resignifications within the context of linguistic reclamations enacted around ethnic and racial affiliations. The chapter specifically focuses on the reclamation of the Spanish terms joto/a/x and jotería by Latinx communities in the United States—terms that have historically been used to denigrate men performing traits associated with femininity—to illustrate how linguistic reclamation provides an avenue for resistance by creating and maintaining new worlds of possibility.

Hardballs and softballs

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Clayman ◽  
Matthew P. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Language Practices ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Do So ◽  
News Interviews

Abstract The design of questions in news interviews and news conferences has proven to be an illuminating window into the tenor of press-state relations. Quantitative studies have charted aggregate variations in adversarial questioning, but less is known about variations in the intensity of adversarialness within any particular question. Such variation is captured by the vernacular distinction between “hardball” versus “softball” questions. Hardballs advance an oppositional viewpoint vigorously, while softballs do so at most mildly. In this paper we investigate recurrent language practices through which journalists modulate the oppositionality of a question, thereby either hindering or facilitating response. The objective is to better understand how adversarialness is enacted in direct encounters between politicians and journalists.

scholarly journals Misunderstandings and Contradictions in Discursive Argumentation: silence emergence production processes in cases of Brazilian digital media

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Samuel Ponsoni ◽  
Roberto Leiser Baronas
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Do So

In language, there are a few cases of exposition of arguments that, in spite of all the effort the subjects do in their enunciative constructs, misunderstandings and contradictions seem to return in these arguments, which may generate some disagreement. These flaws in argumentation can and must be explained by several theories within the scope of language studies: from the most structural, through the enunciative theories, to the most discursive. In this sense, we propose in this paper to search, in a discursive understanding of language, namely, from French Discourse Analysis, and more specifically that of the discursive theory of constitutive silence to every language process, proposed by Eni Orlandi (2007), the analyzes for these ritual failures in the elaboration of the arguments. To do so, we have brought the analysis of some cases that have occurred in what we call the digital media of Brazilian daily life, that is, cases that circulated in the virtual spaces of the Internet and its various enunciative devices. In these case analysis, we seek, through the formula of constitutive and foundational silence, described by Orlandi (2007), to understand how misunderstandings and contradictions are, in fact, the evidence and irruption of these discursive silencings in the discursive arguments of the cases. Thus, responding to this hypothesis is our main objective in this work.

scholarly journals The argument style in research article discussions to support research findings in language studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-307
Author(s):  
Safnil Arsyad ◽  
Bambang Kaswanti Purwo ◽  
Zifirdaus Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Analysis Method ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Argument Quality ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Possible Cause ◽  
Support Research ◽  
Do So

The argument quality in a research article discussion (henceforth RAD) determines the quality of the article as a whole, and therefore this section must be written as convincingly as possible. However, authors in different disciplines such as Language Studies (LS) may address this section in a different argument style. This study is aimed at investigating how Indonesian writers in LS support their findings in their RADs. There were 40 RADs taken from four different Indonesian journals in LS; the articles were chosen from the latest volumes of the nationally accredited journals. This study used a genre analysis method in which the major source of data is a collection of texts as a product of language activity. The results show that the majority of Indonesian writers use Style 1 (interpreting the research findings or suggesting what the research findings mean), Style 2 (explaining or elaborating the research findings), Style-3 (stating the possible cause/s of the research findings), and Style 4 (illustrating or exemplifying the research findings) to support their research findings. However, unlike international authors, Indonesian writers do not relate their research findings with those of previous related studies; if they do so, it is to confirm the interpretation or explanation of their research results. The results of this study may help Indonesian authors in LS improve the quality of their RADs especially when writing articles in English to be submitted to an international journal.

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