Linguistic Disobedience

Komska, Yuliya; Moyd, Michelle; Gramling, David

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“…In the spirit of "restoring power to civic language" (cf. Komska, Moyd, & Gramling, 2019), equipping future professionals with the skills needed to uncover the ideological facets of state policies, and the discursive construction of political rhetoric, will help confront the discrimination and oppression that exists in many societies. The elite discourses of online and print newspapers are not only objects of our inquiry; they are the very tools for shaping perceptions and changing lives.…”

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Infesting our country: discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

Jenks

Bhatia

2020

Language and Intercultural Communication

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Postmodern attempts to understand diverse communities living in close proximity within urban spaces may create a positive image of migration and immigration despite ongoing negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants in popular discourse and mainstream media. One such example includes the varied discourses used to depict individuals wishing to cross national borders. Recent and vivid reminders of the precarity of cross-border lives can be found in online and print newspapers reporting family separation, death, kidnapping, and extortion (cf. AUTHOR, 2018). This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion (AUTHOR, 2015) as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central to forwarding ideological positions against migration and immigration. Our findings are then used to discuss larger issues of how media is transforming the ways in which political ideologies are constructed and circulated.

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Infesting our country: discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

Jenks

Bhatia

2020

Language and Intercultural Communication

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“…Like other creative sociolinguistic conceptual endeavours such as disinventing language (Makoni & Pennycook, 2005), challenging the discreteness of language (Jørgensen 2008;Otsuji & Pennycook 2010;Wei, 2011), (de)occupying language (Alim, 2019), decolonising multilingualism (Phipps, 2019) and linguistic disobedience (Komska et al, 2019), among many others, unmooring language is going to be messy and unsettling. It is going to require "awkward practice [and] uneasy rehearsals" (Phipps, 2019, p. 7), as well as the effort to unlearn the habit of perceiving the world as unchanging and static.…”

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“…Third, there is the emphasis on language in relation to power structures in place. Examples are featured in research on scaling (Badwan and Simpson, 2019;Blommaert, 2010;Canagarajah and De Costa, 2016), roots and routes (Heller et al, 2016), linguistic disobedience (Komska et al, 2019) and decolonising multilingualism (Phipps, 2019). Superdiversity sociolinguistics has indeed been useful in theorising the notion of "unmooring" language.…”

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Unmooring language for social justice: young people talking about language in place in Manchester, UK

Badwan

2020

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

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Multilingualism from a Monolingual Habitus: The View from Scotland

Kanaki

2020

Multilingualism and Politics

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Linguistic Disobedience

Cited by 12 publications

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Infesting our country: discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

Infesting our country: discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

Unmooring language for social justice: young people talking about language in place in Manchester, UK

Multilingualism from a Monolingual Habitus: The View from Scotland

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