Are we one?: Quechua-Aymara contact and the challenges of boundary maintenance in Puno, Peru
This article investigates the impact that opposing scale-making projects of boundary maintenance have on multilingual histories of indigenous Quechua and Aymara speakers in Puno, Peru. Quechua and Aymara speakers perpetuate discourses of strict ethnolinguistic difference, which correspond to scale-making projects that regiment ethnolinguistic boundaries and erase histories of indigenous multilingualism. These projects are challenged by opposing scalar projects that promote a common indigenous heritage. I will examine how indigenous puneños regiment ethnolinguistic boundaries through three case studies: inter-indigenous ma...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
On the road: Communicating traffic
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Elwys De Stefani, Mathias Broth, Arnulf DeppermannAbstractHow do people communicate in mobile settings of interaction? How does mobility affect the way we speak? How does mobility exert influence on the manner in which talk itself is consequential for how we move in space? Recently, questions of this sort have attracted increasing attention in the human and social sciences. This Special Issue contributes to the emerging body of studies on mobility and talk by inspecting an ordinary and ubiquitous phenomenon in which communication among...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language in the Amerindian imagination: An inquiry into linguistic natures
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Jan David Hauck, Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The origin of language among the Aché
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Jan David HauckAbstractFor the Aché of Paraguay, language seems to never have been an issue, much less a topic. Aché verbal art emphasizes non-communicative and non-representational functions of speech. The activity of speaking was not related to ethnic or personal identity and there is no account of language in their mythology. This stands in stark contrast to their neighbors, the Guaraní, who have the concept of the word-soul, which relates to names and personhood, and a myth about the origin of language. In the twentieth century,...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Investing in indigenous multilingualism in the Arctic
This article explores the dynamics between language and identity categories and the boundaries produced in a changing multilingual, indigenous context in the Arctic region of Finland. In this moment of transition, indigenous multilingualism has high stakes. It can be a resource for political and economic development but also for management and regimentation, open to winners and losers. Drawing on a longitudinal critical discourse ethnography of producing language and identity categories in the Finnish Arctic, I discuss three circulating discourses relevant for the ways in which indigenous identity boundaries are made to ma...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Telling the Other's side. Formulating others' mental states in driver training
This article examines ascriptions of mental states to other road users in live traffic driver training. Through this practice, instructors formulate how others make sense of the trainee driver's car. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we demonstrate how others' side formulations support trainee drivers' communicative handling of the car during ongoing coordination events. In contrast, formulations occurring after coordination events serve educational ends, yielding the generic inferential practices by which competent drivers make contextual sense of others' actions. Therefore, others' side formulations comprise an imp...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
On recognizing persistence in the Indigenous language ideologies of multilingualism in two Native American Communities
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Paul V. KroskrityAbstractBased on original and long-term research in two ideologically divergent Native American linguistic communities, I want to demonstrate the surprising persistence of Indigenous language ideologies associated with multilingualism and how differences in these ideologies have manifested in divergent patterns of language shift and, more recently, in the nature and scope of language revitalization efforts. The Village of Tewa (NE Arizona) still partially retains a multilingual adaptation in all generations except the ...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Indigenous multilingualisms past and present
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Jill Vaughan, Ruth Singer (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Candidates’ humour and the construction of co-membership in job interviews
Publication date: July 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 61Author(s): Dorien Van De Mieroop, Stephanie SchnurrAbstractIn this article, we draw on audio-recordings of authentic job interviews to explore the various ways in which candidates use humour to establish, confirm or claim co-membership with the recruiter. We not only analyze whether these humorous comments are successful, but also how candidates use humour to construct various identities. We found that the humorous comments are all oriented to the construction of personalized – instead of professional – identities and that their success could be rela...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: July 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 61Author(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
When different “codes” meet: Communication styles and conflict in intercultural academic meetings
This study focuses on conflict situations in bilingual academic meetings to investigate the communication styles used by Chinese and American university faculty. The ethnographic participant observation used as the main method was cross-checked with post-meeting interview data. The findings revealed that, due to the conflicting priorities in meeting protocol and behaviors in Taiwanese and American cultures, tension is experienced by faculty members of both cultures. What it means to have a meeting and how members address various issues does vary from culture to culture. It is suggested that conflict situations be ameliorat...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Writing Chiwere: Orthography, literacy, and language revitalization
Publication date: July 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 61Author(s): Saul SchwartzAbstractLike other Native American communities left without fluent speakers of their indigenous languages, Ioways and Otoe-Missourias now rely on texts to learn Chiwere, their heritage language. This epistemological shift from speakers to texts has increased pedagogical pressures on orthographies since literacy has become the primary means of heritage language socialization and revitalization. Comparing language learning materials in use today to nineteenth-century missionary primers reveals that Chiwere orthographies and literacy...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Content deafness: When coherent talk just doesn't matter
We present evidence showing that, contrary to this intuition, people often fail to notice cases of blatant conversational incoherence.Thirty participants engaged in spontaneous face-to-face conversations with a confederate who, 8 min into the conversation, uttered the nonsensical sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”. The sentence was uttered with a clear voice when participants were silent. A minute later the conversation was ended and participants were asked if they had noticed the sentence. Remarkably, only 10 participants noticed.This newly uncovered phenomenon—which we label content deafness—corrob...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Ethnicity, history and standard Ixhil (Ixil) Mayan
Publication date: July 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 61Author(s): Sergio RomeroAbstractThis paper explores the tension between local ethnic identities and pan-Maya language ideologies in the development of Standard Ixhil Mayan, a standardized variety recognized by the Guatemalan state and the Academy of Mayan Languages of Guatemala. Based on the analysis of interviews and publications in Ixhil, I examine how alternative ethnic identities are indexed through variations in orthographic conventions. As in other Mayan communities in the highlands of Guatemala, standardization is a contested field in which differ...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Radical indeterminacy, idealism, realism: Benedetto Croce vs. Roy Harris
This article takes as its point of departure Croce’s ‘Estetica’ (1902) and discusses Crocean thought from the critical vantage point of Harrisian integrationist theory in order to establish where the points of convergence and divergence lie. It will be argued that Crocean idealism and integrationism are ultimately incompatible philosophies, in spite of vast semiological common ground. (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
