Overview
- Places language at the forefront of civic awareness
- Provides a theoretical and practical resource for speaking up and inhabiting language in an age of manipulation, uncertainty, and outright lies
- Highlights the role that marginalized communities have played in critically appraising and in caring for language in times of crisis
- Argues that we need a new role for, and moral commitment to, the public critique, correction and care of language
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Keywords
- Donald Trump
- Alternative facts
- Neoliberalism
- Black Lives Matter
- decolonizing language
- queer theory
- decolonizing language
- monolingualism
- critical linguistics
- activism
- Noam Chomsky
- James Baldwin
- Language use
- Ethics
- propaganda
- epistemic crisis
- language power
- language ideology
- language policy
- postcolonial theory
- slang and jargon
Table of contents (5 chapters)
Reviews
“This is a correctly political Lingua Tertii Imperii for our age. In times when the war is the words the humanities bring super-vision, this book of obedient linguistic disobedience will give you a road map—no, not a road map, let’s not speak any more of road maps—it will give you a way, when there is no path, a tracery of steps taken through the mouthways of words. There will be an attentiveness awoken in your word-making tongue, as you read these disobediently obedient words, you will crave silence, as a political duty, a spiritual act.” (Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, University of Glasgow, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michelle Moyd is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (2014).
David Gramling is Associate Professor of German Studies and Second Language Acquisition & Teaching at the University of Arizona, USA. His book The Invention of Monolingualism (2016) received the American Association for Applied Linguistics book award for 2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Linguistic Disobedience
Book Subtitle: Restoring Power to Civic Language
Authors: Yuliya Komska, Michelle Moyd, David Gramling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92010-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92009-2Published: 24 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92010-8Published: 13 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 175
Topics: Popular Science in Linguistics, Language Change, Slang and Jargon, Philosophy of Language, Cultural Theory, US Politics