Language and Transnationalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-19-783391-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

Despite serving as a popular keyword for academic research and popular discourse in the twenty-first century, transnationalism has been undertheorized from a sociolinguistic viewpoint, often interchangeably used with terms such as globalization, mobility, or superdiversity. Yet, the rapidly changing world calls for a more rigorous theorization of the concept, as cross-border flow of people, ideas, and capital interact in increasingly complex and politicized ways with powerful regimes of national difference.

In Language and Transnationalism, Brook Bolander and Joseph Sung-Yul Park have gathered a wide range of established and emerging scholars working across diverse social and cultural contexts to consider transnationalism as a theoretical, analytical, and methodological perspective informed by the broader field of sociolinguistics. Reconceptualizing transnationalism as subjective, material, and ideological engagement with tensions of national borders, this volume seeks to recenter language and transnationalism as an ever-relevant area of study for understanding our modern world, particularly in times of resurgent reactionary nationalism. Further, it draws attention to the crucial role of language in constructing relations of sameness and difference and argues that language should be considered an essential mediating element for all transnational processes.

Offering a practice-based perspective that looks at transnationalism in relation to the material, political, ideological conditions that constitute national borders, the book highlights the contributions that sociolinguistics can make for the vast interdisciplinary field of transnationalism studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolander, Brook

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- List of Figures

- List of Contributors

- Chapter 1: Introduction: Language and Transnationalism as a Practice-oriented Field of Research

- Joseph Sung-Yul Park and Brook Bolander

- Part 1: Perspectives

- Chapter 2: Dialog across Spatiotemporal Imaginaries: Unsettling Language, Reimagining Transnationalism, and Materializing Care

- Lydia Catedral and Farzad Karimzad

- Chapter 3: Intra-national Transnationalism? Korean Isangajok and the Paradox of Reunification

- Marc Yi Fei Yeo and Joseph Sung-Yul Park

- Chapter 4: Transnational Voices from Nowhere Leaving No One Behind? Hierarchical Chronotopes in AI Language Culture as an Element of US Tech Colonialism

- Britta Schneider

- Part 2: Approaches

- Chapter 5: Communicative Care: An Analytical Lens and Articulating Framework for Language and Transnationalism

- Lynnette Arnold

- Chapter 6: Semiosis Across Encounters in a Transnational Social Movement

- Maria Rosa Garrido

- Chapter 7: A Semiotic Approach to Language and Transnationalism: K-Pop Fan Discourse in Mexico

- Joyhanna Jung Yoo

- Part 3: Sites

- Chapter 8: Transnational Graffiti Writing in Delhi

- Jaspal Naveel Singh

- Chapter 9: Mindset and mobility: Transnational Figures of Personhood in YouTube Comments

- John Scott Daly

- Chapter 10: "Brain Sold Out": Transnational Linguistic Flows between Tehran and Tehrangeles

- Neda Sahranavard and Jerry Won Lee

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brook Bolander is a sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist interested in language use online, language and transnationalism, and research methodologies connected to the study of language at the offline/online interface and transnationalism. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at Monash University and Honorary Associate Professor at The University Of Hong Kong.

Joseph Sung-Yul Park is a Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre studies at the National University of Singapore. He is a sociolinguist working in the areas of linguistic anthropology and interactional linguistics, and his current research focuses on various aspects of language and globalization. He has worked extensively on the issue of English in South Korea. He is the author of The Local Construction of a Global Language (2009), Markets of English (co-authored with Lionel Wee, 2012), and In Pursuit of English: Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea (Oxford, 2021).