Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Cade Bushnell, Stephen J. Moody
May 06, 2025
Bushnell and Moody present a rich investigation into the navigation of friendships, adopting discursive and ethnographic perspectives to examine Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English interactional data. Since the definition of friendship is hard to pin down, most sociocultural anthropologists ...
Language, Diaspora, Home: Identity and Women’s Linguistic Space-Making
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By Heather Robinson
November 28, 2024
This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home....
Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools
1st Edition
By Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella
May 31, 2023
This book offers a linguistic ethnographic account of secondary schooling in Umbria, Italy, examining the complex intersection of language, socioeconomic class, social persona, and school choice to provide a holistic portrait of the situatedness of student “success.” The book explores the everyday ...
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of Language and Race in South Africa
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By Stephanie Rudwick
May 31, 2023
Grounded in ethnography, this monograph explores the ambiguity of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics of language and race in contemporary South Africa. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach which highlights how ways of speaking English constructs identities in a ...
Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi: Cultivating Linguistic Diversity in an Australian Community
1st Edition
By Ruth Singer
February 22, 2023
This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an ethnographic approach, the book examines what ...
Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions
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By Maïa Ponsonnet
June 30, 2021
In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms. While this phenomenon, known as ‘language shift’, is usually regarded as a loss, this book adopts a different angle and addresses the ...
Narrating Migration: Intimacies of Exclusion in Northern Italy
1st Edition
By Sabina Perrino
June 30, 2021
This book reflects on the myriad ways in which forms of exclusion and inclusion play out in narratives of migration, focusing on the case of Northern Italian narratives in today’s superdiverse Italy. Drawing on over a decade of the author’s fieldwork in the region, the volume examines the emergence...
Narratives of Conflict, Belonging, and the State: Discourse and Social Life in Post-War Ireland
1st Edition
By Brigittine M. French
June 30, 2021
Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality, and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality. Focusing specifically on ...
Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
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By Laura Siragusa
August 14, 2020
This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority’s heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, ...