Hospitable Linguistics: Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters

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Hospitable Linguistics

Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters

Edited by: Nicholas G. Faraclas , Anne Storch and Viveka Velupillai

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 4 | Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies

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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 represents a crucial intervention in attempts to fashion a more integrative, responsible and respectful linguistics.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines General Linguistics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgements Nicholas Faraclas, Anne Storch and Viveka Velupillai Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Foreword Sinfree Makoni Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
1 Introduction Anne Storch and Nicholas G. Faraclas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part 1 Language as a Gift
2 Sunset at a Place Visited for No Ordinary Reason Anne Storch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3 The Decline of Hospitality and the Rise of Linguistic Imperialism Arpad Szakolczai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
4 Linguistics and Nigerian Language Studies In Nigeria: Building Bridges for a More Viable and Hospitable Linguistics Judith A. Mgbemena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
5 The Trans-Atlantic Shipment of Romanies (‘Gypsies’) to the Americas: Discursive Silencing, Erasure and Inhospitableness Ian Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
6 (Not) Speaking to a German Africanist in Namibia in 1954: On Refusal and Hospitality as Responses to Linguistic Research Renathe Meroro-Tjikundi and Anette Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
7 The Pew Inscriptions at First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia Fiona Mc Laughlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Part 2 Language and Sharing
8 The Art and Role of Listening and Verbal Gestures1 in Tobagonian: Returning to the Oral/Aural Charleston Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
9 Dagaaba Travel Experience Names Dannabang Kuwabong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
10 La carta que te escribo sobre festivales de cine y hospitalidad Federico Olivieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
11 ‘Paradise’, ‘Hospitality’ and the Transformative Power of Environmental Music: When the Island Sings Priya Parrotta Natarajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
12 Pluri-living in the ‘In’ Hospitable Deep South of the US Melinda Maxwell-Gibb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Part 3 Language, Resisting and Undoing Enclosures
13 Shetland Stories in Knitting Alison Rendall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
14 The Fieldworker as a Human Being Andrea Hollington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
15 Résistance et Hospitalité Fatou Cissé Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
16 Pastiche: A Conversation Between Kenyan Sheng and South African Tsotsitaal Youth Language Speakers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
17 Women: The Hospitable ‘Race’ Who Were ‘Already There’ Nalini Natarajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
18 On Strike on Mother Language Day: Critical Reflections, Toilet Signs and Language Geneaologies Alison Phipps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	246
Part 4 Language and Reassuming Sovereignty
19 Narratives of Reciprocity and Envy in a Digo Community in Tiwi, Kenya Angelika Mietzner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
20 Auður the Deep Minded Meg Rodger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
21 Childhood Memories and the Call to Being Hospitable in the Bar’chu, the Bell and the Bilal Penelope Allsobrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
22 Giving Voice to the Victims of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials: ‘Answered, She Spoke it for Weakness of Her Owne Flesh, and for Feare of Her Lyfe’ Ragnhild Ljosland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	306
23 A World Glasgow Minding on the International Day of Peace Alison Phipps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Afterword: Hospitable Linguistics – Thoughts on Current Directions Jan Knipping and Nico Nassenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325

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March 20, 2025

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9781836680000

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350

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781836680000

eBook ISBN: 9781836680000

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Bilingualism & multilingualism; Japan; Language teaching theory & methods

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