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‘Spaces of otherwis...
‘Spaces of otherwise’? Towards a sociolinguistics of potentiality
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- Kerfoot, Caroline, 1955- (redaktör/utgivare)
- Stockholms universitet,Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning
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- Stroud, Christopher, 1955- (redaktör/utgivare)
- Stockholms universitet,Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning
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- Mouton de Gruyter, 2024
- Engelska 152 s.
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Abstract
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- In writing of the economies of abandonment of late liberal globalization, Povinelli (2012: 454) also points to the potential for spaces of otherwise, those spaces of “curiosity and risk, potentiality and exhaustion” which open possibilities for more ethical becoming and the emergence of new forms of sociality and social life. This Special Issue aims to contribute to an expanded, southernized sociology of language and sociolinguistics by exploring what role sociolinguistics can play in thinking through and with these spaces. It brings together a set of papers from southern contexts rarely represented in sociolinguistic research (Crimea, Mozambique, Palestine) spaces of grim endurance where suffering is chronic rather than catastrophic, and a study of the metaphorical south in the north, where migration imperatives land people in situations of precarity, in this case, Sweden. An illuminating invited commentary offers a novel perspective on the key theme quasi-event threading across all the papers. In exploring the construction of spaces of otherwise, authors use the southern concept of Linguistic Citizenship that construes language as a site of political struggle. This framing offers an alternative approach to a politics of language where potentialities for otherwise can be attended to. The papers show how, through acts of linguistic citizenship, participants bring potential worlds into existence, however fleetingly. From the chronicling of these ‘quasi-events’ emerges a sociolinguistics of potentiality, one which contributes to an understanding of what enables some emergent forms of life to endure and others not. The sociolinguistics of potentiality is an invitation to listen beyond and within ‘noise’ to those who inhabit discounted bodies and speak unvalued languages, to move beyond ‘community’ and ‘selfhood’ to becoming otherwise with others in projects of world-building, simultaneously prompting research which seeks to be ‘ethically otherwise’.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- spaces of otherwise
- Povinelli
- quasi-event
- linguistic citizenship
- sociolinguistics of potentiality
- sociology of language
- southern
- decolonial
- futurity
- tvåspråkighet
- Bilingualism
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- sam (ämneskategori)
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