The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

Movement, Crisis, Possibility: Linguistic Anthropology in a Changing World – An Introduction to the 2nd Edition

Inmaculada Garcia-Sanchez and Nancy Bonvillain

Part I.  Language Practices and the Basis of Social Meaning

1.     Language Ideologies: Formulations and Transformations

Paul Kroskrity

2.     Semantic Categorization and Cognition

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

3.     Gesture

Jürgen Streeck

4.     The Social Imaginary, Unspoken in Verbal Art

Bruce Mannheim

5.     Analogies and Ideologies of Translingual Thought

Jerry Won Lee and Daniel N. Silva

6.     The Power of Language Socialization

Amy L. Paugh

7.     Critical Discourse Studies: Principles, Directions, Reflections

Michelle M. Lazar

8.     Digital Linguistic Anthropology

Caroline Tagg and Riki Thompson

Part II.  Language and the Communication of Identities

9.      Discursive Practices, Linguistic Repertoire, and Racial Identities

John Baugh

10.  Language, Race, Everything, Everywhere

Adrienne Lo and Elaine Chun

11.  Language and Gender: Constructions, Structures, and Intersections

Pia Pichler

12.  Language, Heteroglossia, and Intersectionality: A Queer and Trans Critique

William L. Leap and Archie Crowley

13.  Neurodiversity in Linguistic Anthropological Contexts

Laura Sterponi and Luna Castelli Santana

14.  New and Emergent Languages

Joshua Babcock

Part III: Language in the Context of Local/Global Productions

15.   The Emergence of Creoles and Language Change

Salikoko S. Mufwene

16.  Beyond Language Documentation and Revitalization: Positing Post-Language, Posthuman, and Indigenous Praxes of Possibility

Bernard Perley

17.  The Politics of Language Endangerment

Barbra A. Meek

18.  Language and (In)Exclusion: Youth’s Communicative Practices in Contexts of Marginalization

Inmaculada M. Garcia-Sanchez and Kristina Nazimova

19.  Legal Discourse

John M. Conley

20.  Multilingualism and Transnationalism: Perspectives from Refugee Communities

Shannon Ward and Rifah Rafia Monir

21.  Signed Languages and Global Ideologies of Practice

Nancy Bonvillain

Part IV:  Language for Social Justice and Social Action

22. Linguistic Anthropology and Social Justice: Producing Knowledge for Action

Netta Avineri and Robin Conley Riner

23. Eight Ways to Challenge Climate Heating: Climate Discourse and Mobilizing Knowledge for Social Change

Bonnie McElhinney, Tariq Harney, and Amanda Harvey-Sánchez

24. Linguistic Anthropology in a Time of Pan/Epi-demics

Steven P. Black

25. Linguistic Anthropology Facing the Anthropocene

Shaylih Muehlmann

26. The Language of Transitional Justice

Susan F. Hirsch

27. Political Discourse

Adam Hodges

28. Endangered and Emergent Languages and Foodways

Kathleen C. Riley

Index

Biography

Nancy Bonvillain is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics as well as Director of the Tutoring and Writing Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. The editor of the first edition of The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (Routledge, 2014), her research focuses on the Mohawk language and other Native American languages. A prolific author, she has published textbooks on cultural anthropology, language and culture, gender studies, and Native Nations, as well as several ethnographies of Native American First Nations.

Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez is Professor of Education and of Anthropology at the University of California, USA. Her research offers a critical dialogue between educational ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and migration studies, with a focus on the schooling of immigrant children and youth. She is a past fellow of the National Academy of Education (USA) and the author of several journal and book publications, including Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and School: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups (Routledge, 2019).