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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to opening up disciplinary knowledge and offering connections between different approaches to language in contemporary linguistics. Rather than focusing on a particular single methodology or theoretical assumption, the volume presents part of the wealth of linguistic knowledge as an intertwined project, which combines numerous practices, positionalities and perspectives. The editors believe¸ together with the contributors to this volume¸ that it is a crucial and timely task to emphasize the relevance of linguistic knowledge on power, hospitality, social class, marginalization, mobility, history, secrecy, the structures of discourse, and the construction of meaning, as knowledge that needs to be brought together – as it is brought together in personal discussions, conversations and encounters. To work along traces of linguistic connectivity, marginalized narratives, in and on lesser studied (often stigmatized) language practices and to shed light on the tasks of linguistics in making diverse knowledges transparent—this offers spaces for critical discussion on the ethics of linguistics, its challenges, contributions and tasks. These are the approaches that are characteristic for the work of Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, to whom this book is dedicated.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Linguistics as Art, Language as Joy Anne Storch and R.M.W. Dixon Part 1 How to Be Welcoming and Hospitable 2 Truthiness and Language—Popular Perception and Fall-Out Kate Burridge 3 At the Heart of the Murui Katarzyna I. Wojtylak 4 While We Are Not yet Dead: Themes of Love and Loss in a Kandozi-Chapra Drinking Song Simon Overall 5 Research, Rituals and Reciprocity: The Promises of Hospitality in Fieldwork Rosita Henry and Michael Wood 6 Zande Politeness Strategies and Their Verbal Expressions Helma Pasch 7 Sensual Language: Three Stories Anne Storch 8 Othering Based on Communicative (In)competence: Examples from West Africa Felix Ameka 9 On Politeness and the Expression of Socially Valued Behaviour in Tarma Quechua Verbs Willem Adelaar Part 2 How to Imbue Words with Power 10 The Power of Kin Terms in White Hmong: Reinforcing Rights and Duties and Redefining Identity Nerida Jarkey 11 Imbuing Words with Power in Ersu Sihong Zhang 12 Commands, Curses, Blessings and Invocations among the Iraqw of Tanzania Maarten Mous 13 Directive Speech Acts: Imperatives and Hortatives in Northen Amis (Austronesian) Isabelle Bril 14 The Healing Words of the Ayoreo Luca Ciucci Part 3 How to Keep Languages Strong 15 Kumatharo, Mother of the Tariana, Mother of the World Jovino Brito 16 Appreciation of Alexandra Aikhenvald James Sesu Laki 17 The Near Future Tense in Child and Child-Directed Nungon Speech: A Case Study Hannah Sarvasy 18 Ngiä dm bloyag dand: Coconut Stories from Southern New Guinea Dineke Schokkin 19 Code Copying and the Strength of Languages Lars Johanson and Éva Á. Csató 20 Blurring the Lines at InField/CoLang: Examining Inclusion and Impacts Carol Genetti and Carlos M. Nash 21 Working with the Last Guardians of a Language R.M.W. Dixon Part 4 How to Make Language Transparent 22 The Particle ba: A Mirative Strategy in Greek Angeliki Alvanoudi 23 How Grammar Encodes Knowledge in Munya: Evidentiality, Egophoricity, and Mirativity Junwei Bai 24 Nominal Incorporation in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Nouns, Classifiers and the Deceased Marker =ku’ Pilar Valenzuela 25 Utilitarian versus Intellectualist Explanations of Lexical Content: A False Dichotomy N.J. Enfield 26 On Language Use beyond the Sentence: The Role of Discourse Markers in Akie Bernd Heine and Christa König 27 The Semantics of Adverbial Clause Linking in Mongolic Languages: Evaluation of Events and Relations between Them Elena Skribnik Index
