Hospitable Linguistics - 9781788929691

Multilingual Matters

Hospitable LinguisticsAlternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters\nAuthor(s): Nicholas G. Faraclas, Anne Storch, Viveka Velupillai\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Multilingual Matters, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781788929691, 978-1788929691\nSynopsis\nChallenging 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 offers a critical discussion of how linguistics endeavors to domesticate, subdue and integrate both people and languages into existing academic structures and theories, and how as a discipline academic linguistics has barely begun to move beyond its colonial, patriarchal and conservative [url] this book, leading figures in their fields reflect on their own and others practices and experiences in three key areas: the agency and power of refugees and .